Senior Software Engineer

AiFi is a spatial intelligence platform that helps businesses understand and operate physical spaces using real‑time AI. Built on a camera‑first, privacy‑conscious foundation, our platform transforms physical environments into actionable systems—improving operations, elevating customer experiences, and unlocking measurable business value. AiFi is building toward a future where the physical world is as searchable, observable, and understandable as the digital one. 
Across grocery and convenience, venues, specialty retail, quick-service restaurants, and travel hubs, AiFi helps customers solve problems such as fraud prevention, out-of-stock and planogram optimization, 24/7 commerce enablement, no-line premium entry, omnichannel analytics, labor optimization, order accuracy, and frictionless access. With global deployments across diverse formats, AiFi is building a powerful real-world data foundation that continually improves the intelligence and adaptability of its platform.
Responsibilities

- Lead on optimizing our highly concurrent systems

- Scale the store operating systems from small stores to gigantic venues

- Make design decisions in the process of developing our core backend microservices

- Work closely with app developers and product managers to understand the use cases that we need to cover and their potential bottlenecks

- Work with deployment engineers to ensure that what you build goes as quickly as possible to the clients
Requirements

- BS/MS in computer science or related field

- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer (Backend)

- 2+ years of experience using TypeScript

- 2+ years of experience working in node.js for web applications backend

- Highly skilled in unit testing, experience with Jest testing framework

- Highly skilled in RESTful API design and REST API usage

- Proficiency with data modeling, static typing, and SQL

- Proficiency in using Docker

- Experience with event driven or real-time systems

- Experience with TypeScript / JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g. NestJS)

- Experience with Python, GoLang, or C#

- Experience with Kubernetes

- Experience with Postgres

- Experience with Frontend Development (React, React Native) is a plus

- Experience with Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS is a plus
Preferred Additional Qualifications

- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field

- Skilled in Kubernetes, experience with kustomize or helm

- Experience with MongoDB

- Experience with gRPC

- Experience in e-commerce software, checkout processes, payments, virtual POS or other related systems