Arcade AI

Arcade AI

Director of Core Platform Engineering

Presidio, CA · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
TypeScriptDatabricksPlatform EngineeringShopifyResearchLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

About the role

  • The core platform is the backbone of Arcade: order management, fulfillment pipelines, pricing engine, and manufacturer operations that sit underneath everything we ship.
  • This is a leadership role - you'll work directly with our CEO and product leadership, and be the point person in charge of architecting, implementing, and evolving this system to scale to millions of end users.
  • Enforce clean APIs, horizontally scalable microservices, and modern deployment practices.

Responsibilities

  • We believe everyone should have the power to create physical goods as easily as they post online, and we're building the infrastructure to make that real for both consumers and businesses.
  • We've raised $42M from a world-class group of investors, including Reid Hoffman, Forerunner Ventures (Kirsten Green), Canaan Partners (Laura Chau), Adverb Ventures (April Underwood), Factorial Funds (Sol Bier), Offline Ventures (Brit Morin), Sound Ventures (Ashton Kutcher), Inspired Capital (Alexa von Tobel), and Torch Capital (Jonathan Keidan).
  • Together, we're pioneering a new category at the intersection of AI, personal expression, and on-demand manufacturing, and we're building fast.
  • Platform architecture. Enforce clean APIs, horizontally scalable microservices, and modern deployment practices. Create the foundation that allows our entire engineering org to ship fast.
  • AI inference workloads. Arcade runs image generation jobs at scale. You'll own the infrastructure that makes these jobs reliable, cost-efficient, and production-grade - think batching, parallelization, auto-scaling, and observability.
  • Client SDK and MCP. Own the integration layer that allows developers to build applications on top of Arcade - think product creation, order lifecycle management, authentication, and billing.
  • Ownership: You will own the system that every order flows through.
  • Mission: You'll help artists and makers build real businesses on top of AI - not help advertisers target more people.
  • We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and supportive team, and to creating a platform where anyone, anywhere, can make something meaningful.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • You have a bias toward fewer moving pieces, typed data, and clean contracts.

Nice to have

  • Expert-level proficiency in Typescript and/or Python.
  • Familiarity with scaled GPU inference infrastructure.
  • Background in multi-tenant SaaS, subscription/metering systems, or volume pricing engines.
  • As the platform scales, your architecture and technical decisions will directly shape the company's future.
  • Mentorship: Direct collaboration with Mariam Naficy (CEO, founder of Minted and Eve) and Michael Mader (Head of Product), plus access to senior advisors who have built commerce systems at scale.
  • We mean that literally.
  • Competitive compensation
  • Lunch provided daily

Compensation

  • Top-of-market base salary plus meaningful early-stage equity - a level of ownership you cannot get at a large company.
  • Ownership: You will own the system that every order flows through. As the platform scales, your architecture and technical decisions will directly shape the company's future.
  • Mentorship: Direct collaboration with Mariam Naficy (CEO, founder of Minted and Eve) and Michael Mader (Head of Product), plus access to senior advisors who have built commerce systems at scale.
  • Mission: You'll help artists and makers build real businesses on top of AI - not help advertisers target more people. That matters.
  • Competitive compensation
  • Lunch provided daily

Benefits

  • Compensation: Top-of-market base salary plus meaningful early-stage equity - a level of ownership you cannot get at a large company.
  • Learning velocity: Twelve months at Arcade will teach you more than three years anywhere else.

Company info

  • Arcade is building the world's first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality.
  • Our platform lets anyone design, purchase, and sell custom, manufacturable products using natural language and generative AI.
  • Arcade is headquartered in San Francisco's Presidio and led by serial entrepreneur Mariam Naficy (Minted, Eve), and a mission-driven team from Google, Apple, Stability AI, Glean, NVIDIA, Databricks, LinkedIn, Stanford, MIT, Berkeley, and more.

Equal opportunity

  • Arcade is an equal opportunity employer.
  • equal opportunity employer.
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