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Pattern®

Staff Software Engineer - Creative AI

Pattern®, Lehi, Utah, United States, 84043

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Overview Pattern is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead a small team of 1–2 senior engineers and collaborate with creative stakeholders. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on setting engineering direction, delivering with excellence, and building tools that infuse AI into creative workflows.

Responsibilities

Lead a high-autonomy engineering team delivering production-grade creative tools.

Shape and communicate architectural vision while contributing hands-on code.

Build systems with strong observability, testing, and maintainability.

Iterate quickly with direct feedback from creatives, ensuring tools deliver real value.

Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

Problem Spaces You May Work In

Content Analysis & Insights — evaluating creative assets to identify performance drivers and improvement opportunities.

AI-Augmented Content Creation — developing tools that help creatives brainstorm, prototype, and produce assets faster while preserving their style and intent.

Workflow Automation for Creative Teams — integrating with design, video, and publishing pipelines to remove manual steps and accelerate iteration.

Data-Driven Creative Testing — building systems that combine creative experimentation with analytics to guide decision-making.

Leadership & Collaboration

Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and code reviews for 1–2 senior engineers.

Partner with creative stakeholders to translate needs into clear engineering initiatives.

Own architectural decisions and ensure long-term maintainability and scalability.

Set development priorities, balancing quick wins with foundational improvements.

Champion AI integration where it drives meaningful creative impact.

We hire for leadership and engineering excellence, not just specific tools. If you’re willing to adopt our stack, we want to talk—even if your background differs.

Languages & Frameworks

Python, FastAPI, React

Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS

Data: SQL

What You’ll Do

Lead a high-autonomy engineering team delivering production-grade creative tools.

Shape and communicate architectural vision while contributing hands-on code.

Build systems with strong observability, testing, and maintainability.

Iterate quickly with direct feedback from creatives, ensuring tools deliver real value.

Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

What We’re Looking For

Significant experience (typically 7+ years) building and operating production software, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership capacity.

Proven ability to mentor engineers and lead small, high-performing teams.

Strong technical skills across backend, frontend, and cloud systems.

Track record of successful cross-functional collaboration, especially with creative or design-focused teams.

Curiosity, adaptability, and sound judgment when integrating AI into workflows.

Why Work at Pattern Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry. We are a company that evolves quickly, sets big goals, and values our Pattern community. We offer benefits that include:

Unlimited PTO

Paid Holidays

Onsite Fitness Center

Company Paid Life Insurance

Casual Dress Code

Competitive Pay

Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

401(k) match

Pattern provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.

Job Details

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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