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SproutsAI

Senior Software Engineer

SproutsAI, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Senior Software Engineer – Chennai (On-site) About the Role We’re a fast-moving, top-tier VC-funded Silicon Valley startup building ambitious products at the intersection of modern web applications and AI systems. We thrive in ambiguity, ship fast, and care deeply about reliability, security, and craftsmanship.

You’ll work end-to-end—from whiteboard to production—owning services, shaping architecture, and helping define engineering culture from the ground up.

What You’ll Do

Design and build scalable backend services and frontends

Productionize AI, LLM features (RAG, agents, prompt pipelines, evals)

Optimize model performance, cost, and latency

Design robust APIs (REST, GraphQL, gRPC)

Collaborate with product and design teams

Mentor engineers through reviews and documentation

What Makes You a Great Fit

Curious, self-driven, and proactive

Strong systems and API design mindset

Experience with databases and zero‑downtime deployments

Practical experience building with LLMs

Security‑first engineering approach

Nice to Have

Vector databases and embeddings pipelines

Model hosting and inference optimization

Infra, CI/CD, containers, and cloud experience

Modern frontend frameworks (TypeScript‑based)

Startup or open‑source experience

How We Work

Bias to action and fast feedback loops

High‑quality engineering without heavy process

Strong written documentation culture

Ownership‑heavy environment

What Success Looks Like (First 90–180 Days)

Ship reliable user‑facing features

Harden APIs with observability and error budgets

Improve AI retrieval, memory layers

Raise team engineering standards

Compensation & Location Competitive salary + equity. Chennai‑based development team with collaboration across San Francisco.

About Us Backed by a top‑tier Silicon Valley VC firm and led by seasoned founders who have scaled startups from inception to IPO and successful exits.

How To Apply Show us what you’ve built. Share systems you’ve owned, incidents you’ve handled, or repositories that reflect your engineering taste.

Seniority Level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

Full‑time

Job Function

Engineering and Information Technology

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