Senior Software Engineer

Agave•San Francisco, CA

10d•$220,000 - $285,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Agave is experiencing significant growth after a $15M Series A funding round, bringing their total funding to over $20M. They are seeking a highly skilled senior full-stack/backend engineer to develop AI and agent products leveraging their extensive data. The role involves simplifying complex systems and optimizing them for large-scale performance. Agave is building a financial operations platform for the construction industry, a sector historically underserved by modern software. With over 550 customers and backing from prominent investors and industry leaders, Agave has established a strong market position. The company's unique advantage lies in its foundational data layers, providing deep access to customer financial and project data across disparate systems. The engineering team is small, collaborative, and focused on building the next wave of AI-powered products. This is an opportunity to join an early-stage company with a de-risked product, significant market validation, and a clear path to becoming a category-defining entity. The team is technical, diverse, and ambitious, offering opportunities for substantial impact and learning. Agave operates in a massive, yet overlooked, market, giving them a significant competitive advantage. The company is experiencing accelerating momentum, particularly with its AI products and channel partnerships.

Requirements

Back-end/full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience.
Designed and built new large-scale systems from scratch and owned them through years of production use.
Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS) and distributed systems in production, including caching, queuing, and data consistency at scale.
Experience debugging complex production issues end-to-end, including DB performance, memory, concurrency, and third-party API failures.
Comfortable across the full stack and able to work with unfamiliar or legacy systems (SQL, DLLs).
Experience with scaling challenges, such as 100x traffic growth, migrations, and incident postmortems.
Proven ability to deliver large, ambiguous projects end-to-end and explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego, with a desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, and fun team.
Passion for building a world-class engineering culture.
If in the Bay Area: willingness to work in-person in the San Francisco office 5 days a week.
This role is remote-optional for candidates outside the Bay Area.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience with our tech stack is not required.

Responsibilities

Own the architecture of major subsystems, including new integration categories, sync engine internals, and AI product infrastructure.
Set technical patterns for the team through design documents, code reviews, and tooling.
Scope and de-risk multi-week projects by identifying unknowns, prototyping, and sequencing work.
Make pragmatic build-vs-buy and technical debt trade-offs, clearly articulating the reasoning.
Raise the team's technical bar through design reviews, pairing, and mentoring.

Benefits

Competitive equity
Healthcare: company covers 90% of costs with several plan options
401k: company matches 100% of contributions up to 4% of annual salary
Annual performance bonuses (15% of base salary or OTE for 2026)
Sizable relocation bonus for candidates outside the Bay Area
Bonus for anyone moving within a 15-minute walk of the office
Breakfast and dinner stipends through DoorDash
Kitchen stocked with coffee, snacks, and drinks
On-site gym with Peloton, squat rack, Tempo, and Yoga setup
Visa sponsorship (H1B, TN, etc.)
Commuter benefits: pre-tax contributions for commuting costs
Full cost of Muni pass for public transit users
Company-sponsored trips to HQ in San Francisco at least every other month for remote employees