Senior Software Engineer, Illuminate Platform

1+ year production AI experience shipping LLM-powered applications 5+ years experience in building high-throughput, distributed systems Strong SQL skills, particularly analytical patterns Solid React experience building complex, data-intensive UIs Experience with structured output extraction (function calling, JSON mode, tool use) Ability to design and iterate on prompt architectures for complex tasks Understanding of validation patterns between AI outputs and downstream systems Systematic approach to testing non-deterministic systems Fluent English

Design and build AI-powered features for the Illuminate analytics platform Architect natural language to query systems Build React-based interfaces for AI-driven insights Develop low-latency pipelines processing analytical workloads Create and maintain prompt architectures for complex multi-step AI workflows Build validation and error handling systems between LLM outputs and downstream data pipelines Integrate with Kafka/Kafka Streams for real-time data processing Collaborate on system design with product and engineering teams