Klaviyo

Klaviyo

Senior Software Engineer, Customer Agent

Boston, MA · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$148k-$222kDetected 20 days ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewMachine LearningData ScienceLLMsAI OrchestrationA/B TestingOnboardingCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportMentoring

About the role

  • You'll also act as a technical leader and mentor, driving engineering quality, execution, and decision-making across projects.
  • We operate with high ownership, rapid iteration cycles, and a strong bias toward execution.
  • Success in this role means shipping high-quality systems quickly, contributing to foundational platform decisions, improving the intelligence and reliability of our agent experiences, and helping define how AI-powered customer engagement evolves at Klaviyo.

Responsibilities

  • Visit klaviyo.com/careers to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.
  • an extensible AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalized, autonomous customer experiences across channels like chat, email, SMS, and beyond.
  • Every engineer is expected to think holistically about customer outcomes, collaborate deeply across engineering, product, design, data science, and go-to-market teams, and push beyond traditional role boundaries to help the team move faster.
  • In this role, you'll play a critical part in shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale across millions of customer interactions.
  • You'll help develop both foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents.
  • As a Senior Engineer, you'll tackle complex technical and product challenges, develop multiple solution paths, and evaluate business and architectural trade-offs to determine the best approach.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
  • Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.
  • Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help the team grow and learn new skills.
  • Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.
  • Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-native product development, including practical experience experimenting with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic workflows in professional or personal projects.

Nice to have

  • Skills with Python and related technologies.
  • Skills with React and related technologies.
  • Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns.
  • Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling.
  • Massachusetts Applicants:
  • It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment.
  • An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

Compensation

  • This role may require up to 10% travel for purposes such as new hire onboarding, client or partner work if applicable, team meetings, and industry events.
  • Travel is coordinated in advance.
  • We're Klaviyo (pronounced clay-vee-oh).
  • We empower creators to own their destiny by making first-party data accessible and actionable like never before.
  • We see limitless potential for the technology we're developing to nurture personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond.
  • To reach our goals, we need our own crew of remarkable creators-ambitious and collaborative teammates who stay focused on our north star: delighting our customers.
  • Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets.

Benefits

  • If you're ready to do the best work of your career, where you'll be welcomed as your whole self from day one and supported with generous benefits, we hope you'll join us.
  • The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant's job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.

Company info

  • At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day.
  • Our team is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build the future of Customer Agent, Klaviyo's AI-native conversational platform.

Equal opportunity

  • Klaviyo is committed to a policy of equal opportunity and non-discrimination.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • We do not discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, color, religion or religious creed, age, sex (including pregnancy), gender identity, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability

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