Software Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain web applications, APIs, backend services, and lambdas for the Loop product line. Match the level of rigor to the stakes.
• Start with the agent, not the editor. Invest time in planning and intent articulation; the quality of your prompt is the quality of your output.
• Review AI-generated code with the same rigor you'd apply to any code. Plausible is not the same as correct.
• Include meaningful test coverage in every PR and contribute to a healthy CI/CD process.
• Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers. Own the outcome in ambiguity.
• Exhibit ownership: done means stable in merchant hands, not just merged. Flag risks early, make reversible decisions fast, and iterate.
• Make the system around you more effective, not just your own output. Raise the quality bar in code review, surface patterns in support tickets, flag cross-team dependencies early.

Your Experience

• 2-4+ years building web applications, backend services, or APIs.
• Use AI agents as your default starting point and can describe your actual workflow: how you plan a task, prompt an agent, evaluate the output, and decide where to spend your review time.
• You've caught AI-generated code that looked right but wasn't. Treat it the same as code from any other source: own what ships, regardless of how it was generated.
• Have a point of view on where AI helps and where it gets engineers into trouble, and can speak to both from real experience.
• Experience with PHP/Laravel, AWS Serverless, or Vue.js is a strong plus, but not required.
• Care about well-tested, reliable software and have worked in agile, CI/CD environments.
• Operate with intensity and hold a high bar; give direct feedback, ask for help early, and respond to setbacks with ownership rather than withdrawal.
• Can share examples of learning from mistakes, asking for help, and growing through feedback.