Senior Staff Engineer (AI & Agentic Engineering )
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 3, 2026.
This is a remote position.
Senior Staff Engineer (AI & Agentic Engineering)
Location: India (Flexible - WFO preferred, otherwise 2 quarterly visits are compulsory) |
The Role
As Senior Staff Engineer, you'll be one of the senior-most individual contributors driving that shift from the engineering side - turning "we should use AI here" into working, production systems. This is not a role where the product hands you a spec. You'll often be the one deciding what's worth building before anyone else has framed the problem.
Your core mandate is threefold:
Build agentic capability into the core platform. Design and ship AI/agent-driven features - autonomous workflows, decision engines, LLM-integrated tooling - into a commerce platform already processing billions in transaction volume.
Operate at the edge of ambiguity. Take a rough direction, not a groomed backlog, and turn it into a scoped, shippable plan yourself. You'll be trusted to define the "what" as much as the "how."
Set the technical bar for how we build with AI. You won't be the only engineer touching this space - you'll help shape the standard others follow.
What You'll Walk Into
An agentic initiative already underway - early proof-of-concept work has shipped, momentum exists, but there's no dedicated senior technical owner driving it end-to-end yet
A production platform with deep integrations across QuickBooks, Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and more - technically complex and high-stakes
Owning distinct areas of the platform - you'll have real IC peers at your level, not just reports
A manager who will be a technical thought partner, not a filter - you'll engage directly with architecture and roadmap decisions, not through a PM layer
Requirements
What You'll Do
Agentic Product Development
Design and build AI/agent-driven features across the commerce platform - from proof-of-concept to production
Own ambiguous, 0-to-1 problems end-to-end without waiting on a fully-groomed spec
Technical Ownership & Craft
Make and defend architecture calls independently; bring options with tradeoffs, not open-ended questions
Partner with our architecture function on how agentic systems integrate cleanly into the existing platform layer, rather than bypassing it
Roadmap & Direction
Partner with engineering and product leadership on whatto build, not just receive requirements - shape the roadmap, don't just consume it
Identify where AI creates real leverage for customers (vs. where it's just a buzzword) and make the case for it
Cross-Functional Leadership
Set technical direction for others working in the agentic space; raise the bar on how the team builds with AI
Communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders
What We're Looking For
Must-haves:
8+ years in backend/systems engineering, with real production experience owning complex systems end-to-end
Hands-on fluency with AI/LLM tooling - you've built with agents, RAG, tool-calling, or similar, not just used ChatGPT
Demonstrated comfort operating without a fully-defined spec - a track record of shaping a fuzzy problem into a concrete, shippable plan
Strong, independent architectural judgment - comfortable defending a design decision under scrutiny
Self-directed - you don't need a product manager to break down the work before you can start
Clear communicator - can explain a technical decision and its tradeoffs to both engineers and leadership
Strong advantages:
Experience with .NET / C# (our core stack)
Prior experience in a startup or small-team environment where you owned ambiguity by necessity, not choice
Exposure to e-commerce, ERP, or integration-heavy platforms
Benefits
Why Join Webgility
Real impact: Your work directly shapes how thousands of small businesses operate, not just how data moves between systems
Builder's role: You're defining Webgility's agentic capability, not maintaining an established roadmap someone else set
Domain depth: Ecommerce + accounting is a complex, high-stakes integration problem with a large TAM
Direct access: You'll work closely with engineering leadership on architecture and direction, with real influence over what gets built next
Webgility is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.