Senior Software Engineer (Rocks)
We are invent.ai
Invent.ai is a fast-growing company providing AI-Decisioning for Inventory, Merchandising and Pricing Optimization Solutions to retailers around the world. This is an exciting time at Invent, as we are growing our client base, our product portfolio, and our teams to revolutionize the supply chain planning industry.
We are a group of bright, kind, and goal-oriented people working together to make retail better. We take pride in what we do. As a provider of award-winning enterprise-AI SaaS solutions that serve a growing international business with customers across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia, we make a measurable and meaningful difference for our customers every day.
Headquartered in the United States and with offices around the world, our team of 300+ people consists of young engineers and data scientists from the top CS and engineering programs working remotely out of our Istanbul, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, and London offices.
For more information, visit www.invent.ai
About Role
We are seeking highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Engineers to develop solutions in the supply chain analytics domain. In our modern engineering culture, we are moving away from traditional micro-tasking and siloed development. Instead, you will act as an AI-empowered system builder. You will be challenged to build loosely coupled, highly scalable software by owning features end-to-end. Leveraging AI assistants, you will shift your focus from manual coding to architectural design, system orchestration, and high-bar validation.
What You Will Do
- Own the end-to-end development of cross-domain features, working seamlessly across Python/PySpark batch processes, AWS Lambda serverless backends, and React frontends.
- Practice contract-driven development by defining strict interfaces, API schemas, and data structures before implementation to ensure conflict-free teamwork.
- Utilize modern AI coding assistants (e.g., Cursor, Copilot) to accelerate implementation, allowing you to focus on complex business logic and architecture rather than boilerplate syntax.
- Develop "best-in-class" architecture by ensuring components are modularized, secure, and scalable. Shift focus to verifying AI-generated code through comprehensive automated testing (TDD) and edge-case validation.
- Adhere to modern software engineering practices through architectural reviews, focusing on intent and contract alignment rather than basic syntax checks.
- Exercise DevOps principles to deploy, maintain, and monitor production workflows, ensuring continuous delivery and actionable telemetry data.
- Act as a bridge between data scientist groups and product teams, productizing machine learning models using cutting edge cloud and big data technologies.
AI Proficiency
End-to-End AI Leverage
- Proficient in integrating AI coding assistants, CLIs, and Model Context Protocols (MCPs) within a connected development environment.
- Effectively uses AI to accelerate the entire software development lifecycle—spanning from planning, architectural design, implementation, troubleshooting, bug-fixing, cross-team communication, deployment, and observability.
- Orchestrates multiple AI tools and models to cross-reference solutions, deepen technical understanding, and apply sound engineering judgment on AI recommended plans and AI driven execution.
- Builds reusable AI tooling ( CLAUDE.md files, agent rules, skills, slash commands, internal MCPs ) that compounds productivity over time, and applies judgment about when not to reach for AI
AI Guardrails and System Health
- Balances AI-driven speed with rigorous engineering standards. Implements robust automated testing and structural guardrails and CI mechanisms to validate AI-generated code and preventing technical debt.
- Builds robust operational infrastructure to support rapid development, emphasizing safe rollout strategies and reliable rollback mechanisms. Maintains deep system observability to continuously monitor production health and validate the real-world impact of AI-assisted contributions.
What We Are Looking For
Technical Qualifications
- 6+ years of work experience including scalable SaaS systems.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in a related field.
- Strong hands-on experience across our core tech stack: Python and Apache Spark (PySpark) for data processing, AWS Serverless ecosystem (Lambda) for backends, and React for frontend UI.
- Deep understanding of Object-Oriented Programming principles, design patterns, and system architecture.
- Experience integrating and managing AI coding tools in daily workflows to multiply productivity.
- Strong testing mindset with experience in writing robust unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to validate complex system behaviors.
- Familiarity with CI/CD best practices, DevOps, DataOps, and Platform Engineering concepts.
- Ability and motivation to self-teach, manage through ambiguity, and provide high-context instructions to AI models.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with supply chain analytics problems such as demand forecasting, inventory, and price optimization.
- Expertise in batch and stream ETL processes, data pipelines, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Airflow, Databricks).
- Sound understanding of machine learning concepts and experience with Python analytics libraries like NumPy, Pandas, or scikit-learn.
- Knowledge of relational (MSSQL/PostgreSQL), NoSQL databases, and columnar data formats.
- Experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment best practices and familiarity with DevOps technologies such as Docker, Github Actions, Jenkins and Terraform.
Life at Invent.ai:
- Join great teammates across the globe: We consider ourselves anything but average!
- We love what we do: Our team has an exciting tech stack; Pyspark, Databricks, Python, and so on
- We work flexibly and remotely: Instead of spending time in traffic, we can spend this time with ourselves and our loved ones,
- Flat organization with a very strong entrepreneurial culture,
- We provide monthly fixed contribution to internet bill and fun packets (Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.)
- We care about your health and support it with comprehensive private health insurance
- We support your career growth with Udemy, Medium, HBR and other learning tools
- At Invent.ai, you have extra off days for different occasions (birthday, moving day, maternity & paternity leaves etc.)
- Great people make the perfect match: We have a powerful referral bonus for the friend you refer, bring to buddy!
- Work hard, play harder, unlimited fun at work: All-day snacks at the office, team activities, social club meetings, annual retreats, monthly happy Friday drinks and other celebrations. Also, we love gaming and so have a Game Master at Invent! (We really mean it when we say we love it!)
- At Invent.ai we celebrate and reward our successful teammates who have won awards in arts and sports!
- We care about social responsibility and that's why we have a community! Invent.ai gives you the opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives. Our Invent Social Responsibility Club works for educational scholarships and donations, supports young talents by sponsoring them, raises money by running on behalf of non-governmental organizations in marathons etc.
- We believe that we will be more productive when we achieve our work-life balance. We support the Invent social clubs for their hobbies; painting, tennis, football and more!
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Invent.ai provides equal employment opportunities, and we strive for a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are together without discrimination of nationality, gender, belief, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation. For us, diversity means embracing all the features that make us unique.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Working at Invent.ai gives you an opportunity to make a difference in people’s lives. Invent Social Responsibility Club activities include;
● Grants scholarships at four different educational institutions
● An Earthquake fund where Invent matches employee donations 1:1 for underprivileged students
Invent the Future with Us
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