AI Staff Engineer

Phoenix Ecommerce Technologies is the Autonomous Commerce Platform for DTC Founders, aiming to unify storefronts, checkout, payments, and operations into one platform. They are seeking a Staff Engineer to build the technical foundation of their next-generation storefront platform, focusing on architecting and shipping an AI-native storefront builder and autonomous deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Own the architecture behind the AI-native storefront builder:
• Component framework
• Rendering pipeline
• Template engine
• Live preview
• Builder APIs
• Build and expand the infrastructure enabling agent-driven workflows:
• MCP server evolution
• Agent orchestration
• Tool calling
• Schema-constrained generation
• Feedback loops
• Drive architectural decisions around:
• API contracts
• Service boundaries
• Data modeling
• Performance tradeoffs
• Build systems that allow storefront pages to be:
• Generated
• Tested
• Validated
• Deployed
• Optimized autonomously
• Own performance-critical systems including:
• SSR / streaming rendering
• CDN caching
• Edge delivery
• Core Web Vitals
• Drive reliability through:
• Observability
• Tracing
• SLOs
• Incident response