Senior/Staff Software Engineer

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

As a Senior/Staff Software Engineer, you are expected to act as a tech lead in your domain and will be responsible for building clean and effective solutions for our products. By working with a team, you will understand needs from the product management, engineering, and business stakeholders and will be able to build solutions that fit those needs.

What You Will Do

• Architect, lead, design, develop, and evolve high-performance APIs and microservices that handle complex data at scale
• Be an active participant in our technical strategy and roadmap decisions, implement new designs and improve the architecture in our current and new products
• Working with the front-end developers to ensure that the required data flow is well designed
• Helping the current engineering processes by code reviews, mentorship, applying best practices etc.
• Analyze the impact of features, hypothesize and implement new solutions

What We Are Looking For

Qualifications

• 5+ years overall professional web application development experience (preferably with Node.js)
• Demonstrated strong hands-on technical skills; actively involved in coding and capable of solving complex architectural challenges directly
• Experience in designing scalable, high-performance, data-intensive system architectures
• Good knowledge of OOP, design patterns, asynchronous programming, microservices, concurrency, and transactions
• At least 2-year production experience in working with various Javascript libraries - Express (preferred), Hapi, Sails, Nest etc.
• Excellent knowledge of contemporary Javascript (ES6+)
• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases, key-value stores and search engines (PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch etc)
• Strong communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Tech Lead or similar role, providing technical direction to a team and taking ownership of technology decisions
• Experience in actively using AI-Integrated development tools (e.g., Copilot, Cursor) across the software development lifecycle
• Ability to lead and mentor the team in adopting AI-integrated, hybrid development practices and improving engineering productivity
• Strong communication skills and emotional intelligence, with the potential to take on people management responsibilities for future in addition to technical leadership
• Experience with unit and end-to-end testing
• Experience with Typescript
• Experience with large and complex datasets
• Experience with Serverless & Amazon AWS
• Basic understanding of HTML5/CSS

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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