Senior Software Engineer - Customer Agent

Klaviyo Klaviyo · Enterprise · Boston, MA · Engineering

Senior Full Stack Engineer to build Klaviyo's AI-native conversational platform, Customer Agent. The role involves designing, building, and scaling systems for intelligent workflows, conversational experiences, tool integrations, retrieval systems, and multi-channel customer engagement. The engineer will contribute to foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing features, acting as a technical leader and mentor. The team focuses on creating an extensible AI platform for personalized, autonomous customer experiences across various channels, operating with high ownership and rapid iteration.

What you'd actually do

  1. play a critical part in shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale across millions of customer interactions.
  2. work across the stack to design, build, and scale systems that power intelligent workflows, conversational experiences, tools integrations, retrieval systems, onboarding flows, observability, and multi-channel customer engagement.
  3. develop both foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents.
  4. tackle complex technical and product challenges, develop multiple solution paths, and evaluate business and architectural trade-offs to determine the best approach.
  5. act as a technical leader and mentor, driving engineering quality, execution, and decision-making across projects.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in a software engineering role
  • Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or extensive experience across both front-end and back-end technologies
  • Experience building scalable, customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments
  • 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
  • Excitement about leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity, customer experiences, and operational workflows
  • A strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems with urgency and pragmatism

Nice to have

  • Skills with Python and related technologies
  • Skills with React and related technologies
  • Experience building conversational AI systems, workflow engines, or agentic platforms
  • Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns
  • Experience building cloud-native solutions, ideally with AWS
  • Experience developing customer support, commerce, marketing, or customer data software solutions
  • Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure
  • Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms
  • Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling

What the JD emphasized

  • building the future of Customer Agent, Klaviyo’s AI-native conversational platform
  • shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale
  • develop foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents
  • extensible AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalized, autonomous customer experiences across channels

Other signals

  • building the future of Customer Agent, Klaviyo’s AI-native conversational platform
  • shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale
  • develop foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents
  • extensible AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalized, autonomous customer experiences across channels