Senior Software Engineer

The role

You will design, build, and scale production systems for an AI-powered insights platform. You will own core backend architecture and contribute to full-stack development while collaborating with product and data science teams.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, robust APIs, and agentic workflows.
• Build and improve product experiences using modern web technologies.
• Work with LLM pipelines, agent orchestration, and statistical systems to process organic data.
• Improve system reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability across cloud infrastructure.
• Work cross-functionally to clarify product requirements and evaluate technical trade-offs.
• Utilize AI tools to accelerate development velocity and optimize internal loops.

Required qualifications

• 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience building production-grade software.
• Strong backend development experience with languages such as Python, Ruby GO, Java or similar.
• Experience building, scheduling, and monitoring pipelines using Astro / Apache Airflow, Langchain etc.
• Practical understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and message queues/event streaming (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or Kafka).
• Strong foundation in computer science fundamentals, software architecture, performance optimization, and scalable data-intensive systems.

Nice to have

• Degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent deep practical experience.
• Experience with React and TypeScript is highly valued.
• Hands-on experience working with document databases (e.g., MongoDB) and handling analytical data formats like Parquet.
• Familiarity with deploying and monitoring applications in cloud environments (Azure preferred)

About the company

askpolly transforms large-scale human conversation into actionable insights using AI and patented statistical models. The platform provides insight into market reactions, election outcomes, and messaging strategy.