Staff AI engineer

Connectly • San Francisco, CA

102d

About The Position

At Connectly we are building the future of conversational commerce in Latin America with the focus on Whatsapp. Instead of shoppers installing yet another app, we are offering a 360 engagement platform for retailers inside of an app that everyone already have on their phone - Whatsapp. We are a VC backed series B startup with a world-class team coming from Facebook, Google, Uber and other silicon valley companies. We are a remote-first company with offices in San Francisco, Sao Paolo and Bogota. The CEO Stefanos was the global Head of Messenger at Facebook, and the CTO Yandong was CTO of Strava. Other founding members have experience working for Google, Facebook, Uber and other startups.

Requirements

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of technology industry experience in a hands-on engineering role.
• 3+ years of experience building and launching AI products.
• Experience working in high paced, customer focused environment.
• Experience building both backend and frontend solutions using Python and Typescript.
• Experience building agentic systems, understanding of the recent frameworks is a strong plus.

Nice To Haves

• Strong technical expertise in the AI space.
• Knowledge and experience with the latest open source agentic frameworks.
• Knowledge and experience of the latest LLM technology, prompting techniques, tool use, testing methodology.
• Knowledge and experience with the latest cloud ecosystems, AWS and GCP.
• Strong communication skills to lead and propose technical strategy for individual components and overall platform.
• Attention to detail and passion for excellence in customer experience.
• Strong drive for results.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Leading the design and implementation of the next evolution of the conversational AI platform, from agentic sales and marketing components, to AI testing framework, analytics, and infrastructure.
• Involved in planning, growing and optimization of the AI serving platform running on AWS.
• Interfacing and contributing to the components that are integrating with CRMs, WhatsApp APIs, eCommerce platforms like Shopify and VTEX.
• Partnering with product, sales, forward deployed teams and C-suite to ensure high quality and impactful delivery of the platform and all of its components.

Benefits

• An amazing team to work with.
• Competitive pay & equity.
• Hybrid role (3 days in the office, 2 days remote).
• Unlimited Time Off.
• A supportive, caring, and learning environment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees