Staff Platform Engineer — AI-Powered Full-Stack

Embedding VC; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

PTO and flexible schedule

Job summary

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to design, build, and ship full‑stack features end‑to‑end for the Expert Talent platform. You’ll work across frontend, backend, and integrations, collaborating with product, project management, and leadership to turn ideas into shipped customer‑facing capabilities.

This generalist role emphasizes customer impact, AI-powered workflows, and strong ownership as Abaka scales.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production features.
• Strong backend fundamentals: API design, data modeling, distributed systems, and relational databases.
• Comfortable working across the stack, including modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React/TypeScript).
• Experience building or integrating LLM-powered features in production is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of building AI agents into products.
• Product-minded: you ask 'why should we build this' and assess customer outcomes.
• AI-native by default: you already use AI coding tools daily.
• Solid engineering fundamentals: testing, debugging, performance basics.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship full-stack product features — UI, API, and data layer — with a strong bias toward shipping and iterating quickly.
• Own features end-to-end, from product discussion through implementation, testing, and release.
• Embed AI directly into product workflows: AI-powered features, assistive UX, and automation that make the product feel intelligent, not just functional.
• Build evaluation pipelines and data models for AI-powered features.
• Leverage modern AI coding tools to accelerate development while maintaining a high engineering bar.
• Partner closely with Product and Design to shape scope and UX, not just implement a spec handed to you.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and observability of assessment infrastructure.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend fundamentals

Frontend (React/TS)

LLM features in production

AI agents in products

Product-minded

AI coding tools

Testing and debugging

Ownership

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

React/TypeScript

AWS/GCP

Microservices

APIs

Data modeling

Job description

Abaka AI is seeking a Member of Technical Staff, Platform, to design, build, and ship full‑stack features end‑to‑end for the Expert Talent platform. You’ll work across frontend, backend, and integrations, collaborating with product, project management, and leadership to turn ideas into shipped customer‑facing capabilities.

This generalist role emphasizes customer impact, AI-powered workflows, and strong ownership as Abaka scales.