Staff Software Engineer, AI

Archer; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to lead the AI Platform team. You will own architecture decisions, drive technical strategy, and mentor engineers while building agentic AI features on a TypeScript stack.

You’ll work with Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and integrate tools like Anthropic Claude to scale our AI-enabled platform. The role emphasizes hands-on coding, strategic thinking, and collaboration with products and data science teams to deliver reliable, high-quality AI-driven

Qualifications

• 3+ years of production TypeScript experience.
• Strong architectural and technical-leadership skills.
• Experience building AI-assisted systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture of the AI platform.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Mentor engineers and drive high-quality, scalable solutions.
• Collaborate with product and data scientists to deliver AI capabilities.

Skills

TypeScript

Tools

Cloudflare Workers

Durable Objects

D1/Drizzle

Anthropic Claude

Elixir/Phoenix

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Stord to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and is on track to double our revenue in the next 18 months. To meet and exceed this target, Stord is strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission.

By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale.

With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order.

Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like AG1, True Classic, Native, Seed Health, quip, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures.

Stord is revolutionizing the logistics industry with our cloud-based supply chain platform. Our AI team builds intelligent, LLM-driven features — including conversational agents, automated workflows, and AI-powered decision support — that are deeply integrated across Stord's product suite.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical lead of the AI Platform team. This is not a heads-down IC role — you will be the technical pillar of the team, owning architecture decisions, driving technical strategy, and raising the quality bar for everyone around you. You'll work hands-on in our TypeScript-based AI platform built on Cloudflare Workers while simultaneously multiplying the output and growth of the engineers on your team.

The right person for this role has strong opinions, loosely held — informed by deep experience, not by pasting LLM output into a design doc. You have a track record of building and shipping agentic AI systems in production, and you know how to direct AI-assisted development toward high-quality outcomes rather than accepting whatever comes out of the model.

About The Role

Stord is revolutionizing the logistics industry with our cloud-based supply chain platform. Our AI team builds intelligent, LLM-driven features — including conversational agents, automated workflows, and AI-powered decision support — that are deeply integrated across Stord's product suite.

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the technical lead of the AI Platform team. This is not a heads-down IC role — you will be the technical pillar of the team, owning architecture decisions, driving technical strategy, and raising the quality bar for everyone around you. You'll work hands-on in our TypeScript-based AI platform built on Cloudflare Workers while simultaneously multiplying the output and growth of the engineers on your team.

The right person for this role has strong opinions, loosely held — informed by deep experience, not by pasting LLM output into a design doc. You have a track record of building and shipping agentic AI systems in production, and you know how to direct AI-assisted development toward high-quality outcomes rather than accepting whatever comes out of the model.

What You'll Do

Technical Leadership & Strategy

• Own the technical vision and architecture of Stord's AI platform, making decisive design choices and communicating the "why" to stakeholders at all levels
• Drive technical strategy in partnership with the Sr Engineering Manager and Sr Product Manager, translating product goals into sound engineering plans
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions, new tools, and architectural patterns with a pragmatic, production-first mindset
• Establish and enforce technical quality standards through design reviews, code reviews, and architectural guidance
• Show up — be present and accountable in critical ceremonies including design reviews, go/no-go releases, sprint planning, and cross-team syncs

Hands-On Engineering

• Design and build core components of our AI platform: agent orchestration, tool systems, prompt management, and integration APIs
• Work daily in our TypeScript stack: Hono on Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects for stateful agents, D1/Drizzle for persistence, and the AI SDK (Anthropic Claude) for model interaction
• Build robust, scope-aware tool systems that safely expose platform capabilities (orders, inventory, knowledge base) to AI agents
• Design fault-tolerant integrations with downstream services, including Elixir/Phoenix APIs, and ensure graceful degradation
• Integrate ML model outputs via API layers as the team's needs evolve, without requiring deep data science expertise

Team Multiplier

• Be the engineer other engineers go to — cultivate trust and influence with senior and mid-level engineers through consistent technical excellence and availability
• Mentor engineers at all levels, with particular emphasis on growing senior engineers into more autonomous technical decision-makers
• Model and teach directed agentic development practices: how to use AI coding tools effectively, maintain a strong independent technical POV, and produce high-quality results rather than accepting raw model output uncritically
• Create leverage through reusable abstractions, clear documentation of architectural decisions, and developer tooling that makes the rest of the team faster
• Proactively identify technical risks and opportunities — don't wait to be assigned a ticket

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Product Management to shape the AI product roadmap, providing technical perspective on feasibility, sequencing, and trade-offs
• Work with the Group Principal Engineer to align AI platform architecture with broader engineering strategy
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to understand model requirements and design clean integration boundaries
• Support other product engineering teams in adopting AI capabilities within their domains

What You'll Need

Required Technical Skills

• TypeScript (3+ years in production) — You write idiomatic, well-structured TypeScript and are comfortable owning