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Sr. AI Engineer

Job Overview

Location

Santa Monica, CA

Job Type

Full-time

Category

Software Engineering

Date Posted

June 26, 2026

Full Job Description

đź“‹ Description

  • • Architect and ship core mobile commerce products that are durable, fast, and clean, working across frontend, backend, and database layers to deliver measurable impact.
  • • Design and implement proactive AI agent orchestration layers used by thousands of high-growth Shopify brands to enhance customer shopping experiences.
  • • Prototype and iterate on novel human-agent interaction patterns that improve usability, engagement, and conversion rates within Tapcart’s platform.
  • • Dogfood Tapcart’s own platform and mobile apps daily to identify pain points, validate assumptions, and drive product improvements from firsthand merchant and shopper usage.
  • • Raise the bar for engineering craft by establishing best practices, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and contributing to technical documentation and onboarding.
  • • Collaborate directly with the CEO, product designers, and key stakeholders to align technical execution with business goals and merchant needs.
  • • Engage regularly with merchants to understand their challenges, gather feedback, and ensure features deliver real value early and iteratively.
  • • Own end-to-end delivery of features from prototype to production, with full accountability for performance, scalability, and user experience.
  • • Contribute to recruiting efforts by evaluating technical candidates, participating in interviews, and helping build a team of engineers with high standards.
  • • Maintain a strong focus on software quality, performance optimization, and clean architecture, ensuring systems remain maintainable as the platform scales to 200M+ shoppers.
  • • Leverage AI agents daily in personal and professional workflows, demonstrating deep familiarity with their capabilities, limitations, and real-world applications.
  • • Build software that reaches hundreds of millions of users, prioritizing impact and scale over enterprise or forward-deployed solutions.
  • • Work in a lean, management-minimal environment where autonomy, ownership, and shipping code are core to the culture.
  • • Use Tapcart’s platform as a daily tool to inform product decisions and validate technical direction with live merchant data and user behavior.

🎯 Requirements

  • • 5+ years of engineering and product work
  • • Demonstrated skills across frontend, backend, and database layers
  • • A Github that is more green than black

🏖️ Benefits

  • • Competitive salary and equity
  • • Medical, dental, vision
  • • 401(k)
  • • Flexible PTO
  • • Home office stipend
  • • Quarterly merchant stipend
  • • Lots of swag drops

Skills & Technologies

GitHub
Data Science
Senior
Remote
$175k-350k

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About Tapcart Inc.

Tapcart Inc. provides a no-code mobile commerce platform that converts Shopify storefronts into native iOS and Android applications. The SaaS solution offers drag-and-drop design tools, push-notification marketing, real-time inventory sync, and analytics dashboards for consumer brands seeking to increase mobile revenue without custom development. Founded in 2017, the company serves thousands of merchants globally from its Santa Monica headquarters.

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