Software Development Engineer - III

CommerceIQ is building the AI platform that runs commerce for the world's largest brands. We are not selling AI demos. We are shipping AI agents for content, media, and sales into the workflows of the Fortune 100 every week.

Customers include Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Colgate-Palmolive, Mondelez, Samsung, and Kellogg's. Backed by SoftBank, Insight Partners, and Madrona. Headquartered in Mountain View with teams across the US, India, Canada, and the UK. Pre-IPO.

• You will be responsible for building a reliable, scalable crawl platform based provide a unified based data across all CIQ product lines.
• You will be working on problems that span from platform to infrastructure including: distributed systems, at-scale service architecture and monitoring, workflow orchestration, and developer experience.
• Define and drive technical strategy, collaborating with managers to prioritize and shape the team's roadmap.
• Lead high-impact projects, handling ambiguous problem statements and delivering scalable solutions.
• Own system design and architecture, ensuring reliability, observability, and best practices.
• Mentor and lead engineers, fostering growth, technical excellence, and high-quality execution.
• Bridge cross-functional gaps, coordinating between stakeholders to align on technical decisions.
• Review designs, documents, and PRs, maintaining high code and system quality.
• Develop a deep understanding of the platforms, ensuring comprehensive ownership.
• Get your hands dirty and pick up coding and deep dives.

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in leading small to medium-sized teams.
• Expertise in scalable, distributed systems with strong problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on experience with observability, developer experience, and performance optimizations.
• Knowledge on AWS, Spark, Databases, Streaming, Containers, Kubernetes will be an added advantage.
• Strong ability to navigate ambiguity, break down complex problems, and drive solutions.
• You measure success by the impact you create, not by the line of code you ship.
• You take charge and become a human orchestrator, connecting the dots between different Stakeholders and team members when required.
• High Level of independence. We need people who can function independently and collaboratively.
• Data-intensive application experience (ETL/ELT) is a plus.