[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @15Five

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help build and evolve 15Five’s Data Intelligence Platform—the foundation that powers our AI, agentic capabilities, and data‑driven product experiences. You’ll work across a modern tech stack, partner closely with Data Science and Product Engineering, and help define the standards, tooling, and infrastructure that enable our next generation of AI‑powered features.

Areas of Ownership

• Build and evolve 15Five’s Data Intelligence Platform
• Partner across Data Science and Product Engineering
• Elevate engineering quality and culture

What You’ll Do

• Build and enhance the Data Intelligence Platform, including pipelines, tooling, and agentic infrastructure.
• Partner with Data Scientists to develop AI platform capabilities, complex models, and agentic applications.
• Own and improve existing autonomous agents; design, orchestrate, and deploy new ones across the product.
• Implement best practices across software, data, and ML/AI engineering to strengthen our agentic ecosystem.
• Build data models and pipelines that support the entire engineering organization.
• Design scalable data platform features for ingestion, storage, validation, governance, monitoring, and ETL/reverse‑ETL.
• Use AI‑assisted code generation effectively while ensuring code quality, security, and performance.
• Review code and architecture, contribute to documentation, and elevate engineering standards.
• Bring a product mindset to planning, helping shape vision, goals, and roadmap.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and design principles.
• Proficiency in languages used for data and AI (e.g., Python, Java, C++, Go, Scala) plus SQL and relational/NoSQL databases.
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts: ETL pipelines, data modeling, schema design, enrichment, and governance.
• Experience with cloud‑native big‑data environments and optimizing for cost and performance.
• Familiarity with Python frameworks (Django is a plus).
• Experience or interest in MLOps, AI model development, or knowledge graphs.
• Strong communication skills and comfort collaborating across engineering, product, design, and customer‑facing teams in a remote setting.

Nice to Have

• Experience with agentic systems or autonomous agents.
• Exposure to DBT, Airflow, Snowflake, Django, or similar technologies.
• Background in HR tech, people systems, or performance management.

Work Schedule

• Fully Remote, Monday–Friday. Typical hours align with 7/8am–3/4pm PT or 9am–5pm ET, with flexibility.
• Some early‑morning meetings may be required to support cross‑time‑zone collaboration.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision with 15Five cost subsidy
• Employer paid Short-Term, Long-Term Disability, and Term Life
• Family planning support with enhanced medical plans and consultation programs
• Inclusive Benefits Stipend
• Access to mental health and wellness resources
• Flexible Time Off Program
• Generous paid leave for new parents
• Military leave
• Paid Company Holidays
• Sabbatical Program
• 401K with 4% Matching after 6 months
• Remote work
• Work with experts in leadership, culture, and personal development