About Arcade:
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.
Arcade matches consumers with a community of independent makers who can bring their dreams to life, using the power of AI to enable communication. 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).Arcade is based in San Francisco and has recently closed a Series A, led by Canaan and co-led by Forerunner. In total, the company has raised $42M in funding, including from Reid Hoffman, Offline Ventures, Sound Ventures, Inspired Capital, and Adverb Ventures. Angel investors include Sol Bier, Christy Turlington Burns, Elad Gil, Colin Kaepernick, Karlie Kloss, Eugenia Kuyda, David Luan, Kelly Wearstler, Jeff Wilke, and Sharon Zhou.
Arcade is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, inclusion and equity.
Overview of Role
Arcade is seeking a highly skilled Software Engineer with expertise in developing AI native applications and backend systems. 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 variety 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
LLM & Backend Development. We are a small highly focused team, building a uniquely robust backend platform. You’ll own the design and development of critical server-side generative AI components and REST APIs in Python. Work with LLMs, Django, Postgres, Redis and cloud infrastructure products on GCP including Pub/Sub, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Storage and SQL. You'll work directly with LLMs (e.g., GPT-4, Claude, open-source models), building advanced features like retrieval-augmented generation, prompt orchestration, and dynamic agent systems.
Collaboration. Teamwork is key in our environment. You’ll bring diverse perspectives and collaborate with Product, Frontend and AI engineers, and other stakeholders in a hands-on environment with new technologies and architectures in a flexible, small but exceptional, forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries.
Execution & Craftsmanship. You’ll own projects end-to-end with a strong drive to execute, and continuously improve through small, frequent changes. You sweat the important details, strive for excellence and take pride in delivering scalable and reliable systems that push the boundaries of what GenAI can do.
Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience designing and deploying LLM-based applications, including advanced prompt engineering, fine-tuning, RAG, and multi-agent workflows
- Strong backend development experience building scalable, production grade GenAI systems using Python, Django, Postgres, Redis, and 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
- User-first mindset to make sure what we’re 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 developing and maintaining production LLM pipelines, including retrieval systems, model orchestration
- 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.
