Staff Software Engineer

Here at Crisp, we value the strength in teamwork, and strongly believe that it’s the key to Crisp’s success. By bringing together bright, motivated creators, wherever they live and work, we are leveraging humanity’s diversity of experience and background in order to understand the challenges facing our food supply, and solve them together. Come join us, and help build the type of business you’d like to be a part of.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Crisp,  you'll design and build user-facing applications and internal tooling that power insights across our platform. You will work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to develop intuitive interfaces, performant APIs, and scalable systems.

We are especially interested in candidates who are excited about applying Agentic AI approaches. These are systems that demonstrate autonomy, reasoning, and goal-directed behavior to augment our users' workflows and internal developer tools.

This is an evolving role with ample opportunity for growth. Whether you are coming from a startup or corporate background, you appreciate the significant impact to be had in smaller organizations and you relish the ability to shape your own role and the future of the company.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain scalable full stack applications using modern frameworks such as React, Python, Kotlin, or C#
• Design APIs and backend services that interact efficiently with data pipelines, semantic layers, and large-scale datasets
• Collaborate with design and product teams to deliver thoughtful, polished user experiences
• Contribute to our AI-first product direction by building agentic workflows that automate or enhance human decision-making
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that operates reliably in production environments
• Participate in code reviews, system architecture discussions, and team planning
• Continuously improve our engineering practices, processes, and tools

Signs of a Great Candidate

Full Stack Expertise

• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies like React (or similar), TypeScript, and component-based architectures
• Experience with back-end development in C#, Python, or Kotlin
• Proven ability to design RESTful or GraphQL APIs and data access layers
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, especially Google Cloud Platform and services like BigQuery
• Comfort with containerization and deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools

AI Curiosity & Capability

• Exposure to Agentic AI systems such as LangChain, AutoGen, or custom agent frameworks
• Understanding of how LLMs can be embedded into applications to drive autonomous task execution
• Excitement about AI safety, prompt engineering, and tooling that supports iterative improvement of agents in production

Product & User Focused

• Empathy for the end-user and a desire to build intuitive, reliable tools
• Ability to translate complex business problems into elegant technical solutions
• Comfortable balancing speed and quality in a fast-paced environment

Bonus Points

• Experience working with large datasets in Google BigQuery
• Familiarity with retail or supply chain data
• Experience with data visualization frameworks such as Power BI
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tools
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and monitoring or observability tools

Signs of a great candidate for Crisp:

• Collaborative. You know that your colleagues’ perspectives will make our customers successful. Similarly, you use your strengths to help us grow together. You propose ways for us to be more engaged and successful with our customers.
• Customer focused. Our customers are at the forefront of your day.  You pri