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The Senior Software Engineer will design and build a collaborative web platform, managing backend and frontend systems, mentoring junior engineers, and driving architectural decisions. Responsibilities include API design, code quality assurance, and integrating AI into the development workflow.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of Pantheon’s data platform, extending ingestion, curation, retention services and ML/LLM infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive architecture and engineering standards, operate in a DevOps model, partner cross-functionally, and participate in on-call support to ensure reliable, compliant data access and analytics.

Manage and grow a named book of 100–120 strategic agency partners. Build account plans, joint pipeline targets, certification milestones, MDF deployment, and tier graduation paths. Execute co-marketing and verticalized GTM motions, resolve partner friction across functions, and feed field insights to evolve program policies and playbooks.

The Staff Software Engineer will lead the architecture and development of a real-time content platform, working on both backend and frontend systems while mentoring team members and collaborating with product and design teams.

Lead strategy and roadmap for Developer Experience products (Autopilot, Multidev, Upstreams), prioritize public APIs, integrations, and agentic infrastructure, research developer workflows, define success metrics linking developer velocity to business outcomes, and communicate progress to engineering and executives.

Own and drive the Next.js Platform strategy and roadmap at the intersection of developer experience and enterprise operations. Synthesize user research and market data, define success metrics, align dual buyers (portfolio managers and developers), improve product performance, and communicate progress across stakeholders.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data systems and pipelines. Partner with Product, Sales Ops, and Finance to deliver analytics and self-service tooling. Maintain SLOs, improve pipeline reliability, implement testing and documentation, and contribute to data platform strategy and operations.

Partner with Account Executives to lead technical sales cycles: deliver customized demos, ROI analyses, discovery sessions, and technical presentations; resolve technical blockers; complete RFPs/RFIs/security questionnaires; act as trusted technical advisor; collaborate cross-functionally to influence product and customer experience, and maintain subject-matter expertise in modern web infrastructure and composable architectures.