Sr. Software Engineer

JonnyPops•Plymouth, MN

10d•$135,000 - $170,000•Hybrid

About The Position

JonnyPops is making a dedicated commitment to building an AI-Native business, sponsored directly by its co-founders and executive team. A small, in-house, cross-functional team is being established to ideate, prototype, deploy, and sustain AI-Native solutions across the company. This is a focused team with a company committed to innovation and growth, equipped with a clear mandate to help reinvent the manufacturing CPG business model. The Senior Software Engineer will be a founding technical member of this team, responsible for designing how an AI-Native company operates by building agentic workflows, applications, and infrastructure that provide durable productivity, yield, and capability advantages for the business.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience considered.
5+ years of professional software development experience with a track record of delivering production-quality systems.
Experience building applications, automations, or internal tools in a business operations or enterprise environment strongly preferred.
Proficiency in one or more backend languages (Python, TypeScript/Node.js, or similar); writes clean, testable, maintainable code.
Strong experience with REST APIs, webhooks, and third-party SaaS integrations.
Solid SQL skills and comfort with relational databases; ERP data model experience a plus (NetSuite preferred).
Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and modern deployment practices (Docker, CI/CD, GitHub Actions).
Familiarity with Microsoft 365 development surfaces (SharePoint API, Microsoft Graph API, Power Automate) is a strong plus.
Demonstrated fluency building software with AI coding tools — reading codebases, planning multi-file changes, running and fixing tests, and shipping at high velocity.
A genuine AI-first development philosophy and strong judgment about when to trust, verify, and override AI-generated output.
Communicates clearly with non-technical business partners; translates their needs into well-scoped technical solutions.
Self-directed ownership mentality — defines the problem, scopes the work, and ships the solution without step-by-step management.
Curious and growth-oriented; genuinely excited about what’s possible when strong engineering meets modern AI tooling.
Adaptable and resilient in a high-growth environment where priorities evolve quickly.
Committed to JonnyPops core values: Integrity, Masterful Growth, Excellence, Team Work, Fact-Based Decisions, Alignment, and Service and Contribution.

Nice To Haves

Strongly preferred: hands-on experience with Claude Code as a primary development tool; configuring MCP servers and writing effective CLAUDE.md context files; and building with the Anthropic API and Claude Agent SDK (tool use / function calling, custom agentic workflows).
Familiarity with other AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex) is also valued.

Responsibilities

Design, build, deploy, and sustain production-grade agentic AI workflows that automate and augment core business processes across Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, HR, and GTM.
Own the full lifecycle of AI-Native solutions: problem framing, architecture, build, testing, deployment, observability, and iteration.
Establish patterns for reliable, around-the-clock operation of agentic processes.
Stand up and maintain the company’s standardized AI development framework, infrastructure, and agile delivery pipeline as a founding contributor.
Configure and maintain markdown project context files and MCP server integrations.
Use subagent orchestration to parallelize work across large tasks.
Advance the data foundation for AI-Native work, including harmonizing data sources and permission structures, and contributing to on-prem AI compute and agent-to-agent collaboration.
Build AI-powered applications and intelligent agents using Claude Code, the Anthropic API, tool use / function calling, and the Claude Agent SDK.
Connect agents to core systems like NetSuite, Microsoft 365, and RedZone.
Champion responsible software development, establishing patterns for code review, testing, and human-in-the-loop oversight for AI-generated code.
Exercise strong judgment on when to trust, verify, and override AI-generated output.
Embed with department leaders to capture critical business knowledge and turn high-friction processes into intelligent, automated solutions.
Partner with functional owners to build solutions that teams will adopt, providing necessary documentation and enablement.
Support the company’s AI adoption priority through co-developed department-level tools, process maps, and working sessions.
Establish and model engineering best practices for a founding team, including version control (Git), code review, testing, CI/CD, and documentation.
Translate business requirements from non-technical stakeholders into clear, well-scoped technical specifications and working software.
Contribute to architecture and build-vs.-buy decisions.
Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Good Documentation Practices, and facility food-safety and visitor protocols when on-site at the manufacturing facility.
Support the integrity of JonnyPops’ SQF-certified food safety system when designing any solution that touches production or quality data.