Senior Software Engineer (Platform)

VibeIQ Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

12 paid holidays

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave

Job summary

VibeIQ Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer to join the Platform team. You will work across the full development lifecycle, building and maintaining the shared infrastructure, core services, and tooling that our product teams depend on daily.

The Platform team owns Engineering Foundation, Platform Services, and AI Infrastructure, enabling autonomy and end-to-end ownership across ambiguous problems. You will drive design through production, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to raise

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, IAM.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable, distributed backend systems (Node.js and TypeScript preferred).
• Strong understanding of security and authentication patterns in cloud-native environments.
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational tooling for production systems.
• Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous technical problems, define requirements, and drive solutions independently.
• Comfort working across a broad surface area across infrastructure, identity, search, file services, and AI tooling.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems.
• Clear, effective technical writing for design docs and runbooks.
• Excellent cross-functional communication with engineers, product managers, and leadership.
• Startup mentality: ownership, fast iteration, and wearing multiple hats.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain the core platform services and infrastructure that power VibeIQ - search, file management, identity, authentication, workspaces, and more.
• Own major components and multi-month initiatives end-to-end - from technical design through deployment and monitoring.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across the platform.
• Define and enforce service patterns, best practices, and engineering standards that product teams build on.
• Own and evolve security and authentication systems, monitoring tools, and observability across the stack.
• Steward platform SDKs - ensuring they are well-designed, documented, and maintainable.
• Design and build AI infrastructure - including MCP patterns, agent systems, and token management and throttling.
• Partner across teams to identify platform needs, reduce friction, and close gaps in shared capabilities.
• Contribute to technical strategy, including evaluating new technologies and making build-vs-buy recommendations.
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across distributed systems.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team.

Skills

Backend engineering

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Security patterns

Observability

Mentoring

Technical writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

AWS

OpenSearch

Node.js

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ABOUT US

VibeIQ is transforming the way brands bring products to market. We are the first and only Assortment Lifecycle Platform built for today’s retail, fashion, footwear, and apparel brands. VibeIQ is where merchandising, design, and B2B sales teams unite to create, evolve and launch high-performing assortments–with speed, clarity, and confidence.

As a fast-growing Series A company, we’re looking for product-obsessed, proactive thinkers who thrive in ambiguity and want to shape the future of our Product and Engineering function.

POSITION SUMMARY

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Platform team. This role sits at the center of our engineering ecosystem - you'll work across the full development lifecycle, building and maintaining the shared infrastructure, core services, and tooling that our product teams depend on every day. The Platform team at VibeIQ owns three critical pillars of the product.

1. Engineering Foundation - the infrastructure, security and authentication, monitoring, identity systems, service patterns, and SDK stewardship that everything else is built on.
2. Platform Services - the core services that power the product, including search, file management, change history, user and group management, workspaces, and the type and policy system.
3. AI Infrastructure - the patterns, infrastructure, and deployment guidelines for MCP and agent systems, including token management and throttling.

You'll operate with significant autonomy, own ambiguous technical problems end-to-end, and make decisions that affect the trajectory of the entire engineering organization. This is not a role where you execute against a narrowly scoped backlog. You'll identify what matters, define how to solve it, and drive the work from design through production - often across team boundaries.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Design, build, and maintain the core platform services and infrastructure that power VibeIQ - search, file management, identity, authentication, workspaces, and more.
• Own major components and multi-month initiatives end-to-end - from technical design through deployment and monitoring.
• Build and maintain AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency across the platform.
• Define and enforce service patterns, best practices, and engineering standards that product teams build on.
• Own and evolve security and authentication systems, monitoring tools, and observability across the stack.
• Steward platform SDKs - ensuring they are well-designed, documented, and maintainable.
• Design and build AI infrastructure - including MCP patterns, agent systems, and token management and throttling.
• Partner across teams to identify platform needs, reduce friction, and close gaps in shared capabilities.
• Contribute to technical strategy, including evaluating new technologies and making build-vs-buy recommendations.
• Debug and resolve critical production issues across distributed systems.
• Mentor junior engineers, lead design reviews, and raise the technical bar for the team.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering
• Deep, hands-on experience with AWS - you should be comfortable across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, OpenSearch, IAM, and related services
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable, distributed backend systems (Node.jsand TypeScript preferred)
• Strong understanding of security and authentication patterns in cloud-native environments
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and operational tooling for production systems
• Demonstrated ability to own ambiguous technical problems, define requirements, and drive solutions independently
• Comfort working across a broad surface area - platform engineers at VibeIQ touch everything from core infrastructure and identity systems to search, file services, and AI tooling
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across distributed systems
• Clear, effective technical writing - design docs, runbooks, and documentation that others can act on without follow-up
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills - you can explain technical tradeoffs to engineers, product managers, and leadership alike
• Startup mentality: comfort with ownership, fast iteration, and wearing multiple hats

BONUS POINTS

• Experience with AI/LLM infrastructure - MCP, agent frameworks, or similar patterns
• SDK design and stewardship for internal or external consumers
• Experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch at scale
• Familiarity with SaaS integrations (PLM, DAM, PIM, or ERP systems)
• Experience managing hosting costs and optimizing cloud spend
• Experience with automated testing strategies and testable system design
• Exposure to frontend technologies (Angular or React)
• Contributions to developer experience initiatives - internal tooling, platform documentation, onboarding workflows

BENEFITS

401(k), Health, Dental, Vision

12 Paid Holidays per Year

Discretionary Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

VIBEIQ, Inc. values a diverse team and is an equal opportunity employer.

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FRAUD ALERT: VibeIQ never charges fees at any stage of the recruitment process and will never ask for your banking details or personal financial information.

OUR PROCESS: VibeIQ's interview process always includes live video or in-person conversations with our team. We will never extend a job offer via text message or chat application, or without a formal interview.