Arcade Looking for Software Engineer, Backend at San Francisco, CA Full Time

Arcade is the world’s first AI product marketplace, where everything that can be dreamed of can be made. Our mission is to create magical and social shopping experiences for people everywhere, using unparalleled design-to-manufacturing AI technologies. Arcade enables anyone to design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products with a simple text prompt. We match consumers with a marketplace of independent makers which we have built and vetted to bring their dreams to life.

Arcade aims to redefine commerce by offering unprecedented personal choice, expression, and meaning in product creation. We’re using AI to empower anyone to design a product, and feel the profound experience of wearing or using a product that is an expression of their unique vision.

Arcade is led by Mariam Naficy, who has 25+ years of entrepreneurial experience in e-commerce, creator communities, and make-on-demand manufacturing (Eve.com, Minted). Mariam’s co-founders include Will Zhuk, most recently of OpenAI.

Arcade is based in San Francisco and has raised $17M in funding from Reid Hoffman, Offline Ventures, Sound Ventures, and CRV. Angel investors include Christy Turlington Burns, Elad Gil, Colin Kaepernick, Karlie Kloss, David Luan, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kelly Wearstler, Jeff Wilke, and Sharon Zhou.

Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity.

Overview Of Role

Arcade is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with expertise in Python and Django. The ideal candidate is entrepreneurial who has delivered impactful backend software solutions in collaboration with a small team of frontend and AI engineers. This entrepreneurial person has experimented with and knows about a Software Engineer, Backend2variety of AI technologies and their APIs, and can use that experience to tackle big challenges such as orchestrating inference flows across large number of models.

What You Will Do

Backend Development. We are a small highly focused team, building a uniquely robust backend platform. Youʼll own design and development of critical server- side components and REST APIs in Python. Work with Django, Postgres, Redis and cloud infrastructure products on GCP including Pub/Sub, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage and SQL.

Collaboration. Teamwork is key in our environment. Youʼll bring diverse perspectives and collaborate with Frontend and AI engineers, Product managers and other stakeholders in a hands-on environment with new technologies and architectures in a flexible, small but exceptional, forward-thinking organization thatʼs always pushing boundaries.

Craftsmanship. Youʼll own projects end-to-end with strong drive to execute, and continuously improve through small, frequent changes. sweat the important details and strive for excellence.

Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
• Extensive experience within our tech stack including Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, Pub/Sub
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure stack including Docker, Kubernetes and GCP
• Proficiency writing unit and integration tests
• Experience owning technically challenging cross-functional projects
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and execute autonomously
• Software Engineer, Backend3User-first mindset to make sure what weʼre building meets their needs
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies like Typescript
• Sense of urgency and ability to ship quality code in tight timelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Frontend development in Typescript
• Experience with deployments and operations on GCP
• Experience providing high quality code reviews
• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience developing e-commerce or marketplace platforms

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives and will consider all qualified applicants for employment in accordance with all state, local, and federal laws.