Staff Engineer, Core Platform

Moveworks Moveworks · Enterprise · Mountain View, CA · Platform

Staff Engineer, Core Platform role at Moveworks, focusing on building and evolving the company's conversational AI platform. Responsibilities include designing and building reliable platform building blocks, influencing the roadmap, and partnering with various teams to deliver solutions. Requires 8+ years of experience in distributed systems and backend development, with experience in cloud infrastructure and microservices. Nice to have experience with ML products. The company leverages advanced LLMs and an Agentic AI platform to transform work automation.

What you'd actually do

  1. Design and build highly reliable, performant and secure platform building blocks
  2. Influence the platform team roadmap and own the evolution of multiple platform areas
  3. Partner within and across engineering teams to provide cross cutting solutions
  4. Consistently deliver deadline sensitive work that is interdependent with other engineering teams
  5. Challenge the status quo and be responsible for continuous improvement of the platform
  6. Regularly participate in peer code and engineering design reviews

Skills

Required

  • Designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
  • Designing, building, shipping, and maintaining products or platforms
  • Building and integrating with API-based platforms
  • Understanding of REST and other RPC based systems
  • Building and maintaining microservices in Python/Golang/Java/C++
  • Cloud infrastructure like AWS/GCP/Azure
  • Solving for performance, optimization, scalability, latency, and monitoring
  • Startup pace with a high degree of ownership
  • Communicate complex engineering concepts concisely and clearly to product and other cross-functional stakeholders
  • Strong motivation, gumption, and an appetite for continuous, incremental changes and completing challenging projects fast
  • High level of curiosity about engineering outside of your immediate discipline and an incessant desire to learn
  • Willingness to learn and an openness to giving and receiving feedback

Nice to have

  • Experience working with Machine Learning products

What the JD emphasized

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining backend distributed systems
  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, shipping, and maintaining products or platforms