# Senior Software Engineer

**Company:** [15Five](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/15five)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Data Engineering
**Salary:** $121k – $160k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, SQL, Java, C++, Go, Scala, ETL, Data Modeling, Django, MLOps
**Posted:** 2026-02-27

> Build and evolve the Data Intelligence Platform powering AI and agentic features. Partner with Data Science and Product teams on pipelines, autonomous agents, and scalable data infrastructure. Requires 5+ years experience in data/AI engineering.

## Job Description

## Areas of Ownership
- Build and evolve 15Five’s Data Intelligence Platform
- Partner across Data Science and Product Engineering
- Elevate engineering quality and culture

## What You’ll Do
- Build and enhance the Data Intelligence Platform, including pipelines, tooling, and agentic infrastructure.
- Partner with Data Scientists to develop AI platform capabilities, complex models, and agentic applications.
- Own and improve existing autonomous agents; design, orchestrate, and deploy new ones across the product.
- Implement best practices across software, data, and ML/AI engineering to strengthen our agentic ecosystem.
- Build data models and pipelines that support the entire engineering organization.
- Design scalable data platform features for ingestion, storage, validation, governance, monitoring, and ETL/reverse‑ETL.
- Use AI‑assisted code generation effectively while ensuring code quality, security, and performance.
- Review code and architecture, contribute to documentation, and elevate engineering standards.
- Bring a product mindset to planning, helping shape vision, goals, and roadmap.

## What You Bring
- 5+ years of software development experience with strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and design principles.
- Proficiency in languages used for data and AI (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Go, Scala) plus SQL and relational/NoSQL databases.
- Solid understanding of data engineering concepts: ETL pipelines, data modeling, schema design, enrichment, and governance.
- Experience with cloud‑native big‑data environments and optimizing for cost and performance.
- Familiarity with Python frameworks (Django is a plus).
- Experience or interest in MLOps, AI model development, or knowledge graphs.
- Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, product, design, and customer‑facing teams in a remote setting.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with agentic systems or autonomous agents.
- Exposure to DBT, Airflow, Snowflake, Django, or similar technologies.
- Background in HR tech, people systems, or performance management.

## Work Schedule
Fully Remote, Monday–Friday. Typical hours align with 7/8am–3/4pm PT or 9am–5pm ET, with flexibility. Some early‑morning meetings may be required to support cross‑time‑zone collaboration.

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