[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Promenade

Role Description

Promenade is hiring a Senior Software Engineer for our newly formed Internal Tools team. This is a small team that builds software to improve how our internal teams work. We sit with stakeholders, figure out what's broken, and build the thing that fixes it.

Sometimes that means AI. Often it doesn't. A well-built deterministic system solves most problems better than a model call. We want someone with the engineering judgment to tell the difference and the speed to ship either one.

What you'll do

• Talk to people, then build things.
• Work directly with business and engineering teams to understand what's slowing them down.
• Figure out whether the fix is traditional software, an AI integration, or some combination.
• Turn vague requirements into something you can actually build.
• Own the whole thing: prototype it, harden it, deploy it, monitor it.
• Build fast with AI-assisted development using tools like Claude Code.
• Use AI where it actually helps, integrating LLM APIs when language understanding or probabilistic reasoning genuinely improves the outcome.
• Write code other people can maintain, establishing practical patterns for secure AI usage.
• Work with data: write SQL against MySQL/Snowflake, build internal dashboards, and turn business questions into lightweight data tools.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Solid backend skills: APIs, data modeling, system design.
• Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs into real applications.
• Fluent with AI-assisted dev tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar).
• Strong SQL (Snowflake experience is a plus). Javascript or Python preferred.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and ownership from idea through production.
• Ability to differentiate between interesting and impactful solutions.

Requirements

• You've shipped production systems used by real people.
• You can debug a failing deploy and read a stack trace.
• You understand what models are good at and where they fall apart.
• You use AI-assisted tools to move faster, reviewing generated code rigorously.
• You talk to stakeholders directly and optimize for usability.

Benefits

• $135,000 - $150,000 a year.

Company Description

Promenade is a mission-driven company empowering local businesses with products and services that allow them to thrive online and offline. We build vertically-focused software catered to each industry we serve, leveling the playing field between the small business and large aggregators.

• Founded in 2011 as BloomNation, the nation’s premier network for local florists.
• Helps thousands of local florists across the country.
• Creates software for four industries: BloomNation (Floral), Promenade (Food, Liquor, and Butchers).
• Based in Santa Monica, CA with remote roles available.
• Backed by premier industry investors such as Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, and Crunch Fund.
• Named one of Entrepreneur’s “5 Sizzling Silicon Beach Startups to Watch.”
• Located one block away from the beach on the world-famous 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica.