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