As a Senior Software Engineer at CommodityAI, you will architect core technical pillars for an industry-scale operating system. You will build high-throughput backend APIs and production AI agents that transform unstructured data into deterministic trade insights. Working directly with founders, you'll solve complex logistical challenges while scaling infrastructure for global transaction volumes.
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Senior Software Engineer at CommodityAI
CommodityAI is building the operating system for the global commodities industry, replacing manual legacy workflows with intelligent automation. As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders in San Francisco to architect production AI agents and core infrastructure. This is a rare opportunity to join a high-growth, high-trust team and solve complex logistical challenges that power the world’s energy and agricultural sectors.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
CommodityAI is a modern AI-powered commodity management and agentic operating system built for physical commodity traders, distributors, and operators. It provides an integrated trading and operations management system that eliminates friction in physical commodities trading by automating manual workflows, reducing data entry, and improving visibility into key processes such as shipment tracking, inventory management, and document processing.[1][3] The platform uses intelligent automation agents and collaborative tools tailored to commodity operations to handle thousands of shipments and millions of shipment-related documents, classifying and extracting relevant fields to create a unified, system-ready data layer.[2] CommodityAI brings together automated position management, shipment tracking, logistics, and commercial and finance workflows on a single operating system so that data flows seamlessly between applications, giving teams a shared source of truth, robust audit trails, and AI-powered insights to run trading operations more efficiently and at greater scale.[1][2][3][5][6]
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and scale robust backend APIs and data pipelines using Python and Go to process massive commercial contract volumes.
- Architect agentic AI systems and structured extraction pipelines that turn chaotic PDFs and emails into reliable, production-ready data.
- Own end-to-end product features across the full stack, from sophisticated data orchestration to clean, intuitive user workflows in React.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Brings 6+ years of engineering experience, with a proven track record as a core contributor at high-growth startups or early technical leadership.
- Possesses hands-on expertise deploying production AI/LLM systems, specifically focusing on structured outputs, retrieval-augmented generation, or complex agent orchestration.
- Demonstrates strong business curiosity and technical judgment, effectively translating messy real-world logistics into elegant, high-performance code and pragmatic engineering trade-offs.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a fast-growing YC W24 company backed by tech royalty, including the founders of YouTube and Reddit, as they approach a Series A milestone.
- Directly influence the architecture of a platform managing billions of dollars in transaction value for the foundational sectors of global trade.
- Operate in a high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment in San Francisco where you have a direct seat at the table alongside the founding team.
Jack & Jill
How Jack & Jill work together
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