Staff Software Engineer, AI

stord; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord is revolutionizing the logistics industry with a cloud-based supply chain platform. The Staff Software Engineer will serve as the technical pillar of the AI Platform team, owning architecture decisions and driving the technical strategy across product and engineering.

You’ll work hands-on in a TypeScript-based stack on Cloudflare Workers, mentor engineers, and ship agentic AI features that scale customer experiences.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping agentic AI systems in production.
• Strong opinions, loosely held, guided by deep experience.
• Proven ability to lead architecture decisions and mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision and architecture of Stord's AI platform.
• Drive technical strategy with product and engineering leaders.
• Evaluate build-vs-buy decisions and tooling with a production-first mindset.
• Enforce technical quality standards through reviews and guidance.
• Lead design reviews, go/no-go releases, and cross-team syncs.
• Design and build core AI platform components: agent orchestration, tool systems, prompt management, APIs.

Skills

Technical leadership

Architecture decisions

Design reviews

Code reviews

Strategic thinking

People management

TypeScript

Cloudflare Workers

Durable Objects

D1/Drizzle

Anthropic Claude

AI platform

Tools

TypeScript stack

Cloudflare Workers

Durable Objects

D1/Drizzle

Anthropic Claude

Job description

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