Senior Software Engineer

About Forage AI: Forage AI delivers large-scale data collection and processing platforms, including web crawlers, document parsers, data pipelines, AI/Agentic Solutions, and AI-assisted workflows.

Our primary programming language is Python. We design both cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions, primarily on AWS, while also working with GCP and Azure. We value high ownership, strong collaboration, and pragmatic, well-documented engineering.

Location: Remote (Work from Home

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Role Overvie

w:This is a Senior Software Engineering role with strong hands-on responsibilities. You may lead teams while actively contributing to development. This includes reviewing designs and pull requests, pairing with engineers on complex problems, and setting technical directio

n.You are expected to stay deeply involved in architecture, development, and delivery, while also owning team execution, quality, and growt

h.
Key Responsibilitie

• s: Own end‑to‑end delivery of projects: requirements, scoping, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operatio
• ns.Architect scalable, fault‑tolerant systems for crawling, parsing, enrichment, and data processi
• ng.Write production code in Python; set standards via code reviews, design docs, and reference implementatio
• ns.Mentor and grow engineers: coaching on design, coding best practices, observability, and operational excellen
• ce.Collaborate with stakeholders/clients: translate business needs into clear technical plans; manage risks and trade‑of
• fs.Establish engineering best practices (branching strategy, CI/CD, testing strategy, security baselines, SLAs/SLOs, incident/RCA processe
• s).Partner with QA/Ops to ensure quality gates, deployment hygiene, and on‑call readine
• ss.Drive adoption and effective usage of GenAI and AI-agent systems. You are expected to have strong hands-on understanding of prompt engineering, agent design patterns, tool and function calling, RAG pipelines, evaluation techniques, and failure handli

ng.
Required Qualificati

• ons:5 to 7 years of software engineering experience, with proven experience leading engineering teams and delivering projects end to
• end.Expert in Python; strong command over data structures/algorithms, concurrency, and distributed systems conce
• pts.Deep experience with SQL and NoSQL (plus schema design/modeling); familiarity with vector databa
• ses.Proven track record designing and shipping cloud‑native systems on AWS (S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS, SQS/SNS, RDS/DynamoDB, CloudWatch, I
• AM).Significant experience building and operating crawlers/parsers and robust ETL/ELT pipeli
• nes.GenAI and LLM experience, with hands-on exposure to LangChain, CrewAI, or LlamaIndex, prompt engineering, agent-based workflows, RAG pipelines, evaluation strategies, and quality contr
• ols.Hands-on experience with CI/CD and containerization, including GitHub Actions or Jenkins, Docker, and Kuberne
• tes.Experience reviewing code, defining architecture, enforcing coding standards, and guiding teams toward scalable and maintainable desi
• gns.Strong proficiency with Git, testing strategies (unit, integration, and end-to-end), observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing), and performance tun
• ing.Excellent communication: produces high‑quality design docs and gives actionable, empathetic feedb

ack.
Preferred / Good to Have (Priorit

• ized)Data Pipelines/Big Data: Airflow, Spark, Kafka, or equival
• ents.Infra as Code & Cloud Ops: Terraform/CloudFormation; security hardening, cost/performance optimization, capacity plan
• ning.Frontend/JS: not required; basic JS or frontend exposure is nice‑to‑have
• only.Exposure to GCP/A
• zure.Experience with interviewing, onboarding, and developing ta

lent.What Success Looks

• Like:Consistent delivery of well-designed, reliable systems with clear documentation and measurable reliabi
• lity.Teams that ship high-quality code under your guidance, with junior engineers growing through active mentor
• ship.Thoughtful technical decisions that balance delivery speed, cost, security, and long-term maintainabi

lity.Work‑from‑Home Requirem

• ents:High‑speed internet for calls and collabora
• tion.A capable, reliable computer (modern CPU, 16GB+
• RAM).Headphones with clear audio qua
• lity.Stable power and backup arrangem

ents.Forage AI is an equal opportunity employer. We value curiosity, craftsmanship, and collabor