Staff AI-Native Software Engineer

Job summary

Company Description Cri***® empowers people to make and personalize almost anything—from custom cards and apparel to everyday items and home décor. Our smart cutting machines, design apps, and materials make creativity easy and accessible for everyone. We believe everyone is born creative, and our mission is to put the power of handmade into the hands of all.

Qualifications

• 8+ years shipping production software across the full stack—client apps, backend services, and device integration—with strong proficiency in several of the following

Responsibilities

• Just as important, you'll shape how AI gets woven into both the product experience itself and the way our engineering organization builds software.
• Lead architecture governance up front for major initiatives: author/review ADRs, run architecture reviews, and keep major PRs traceable to their ADR.
• Own planning, estimation, and delivery accountability—scrutinizing estimates and separating engineering effort from calendar time.
• Ensure reliability, security, and performance through retries, secure auth, encryption, certificate validation, and permissions.
• Partner cross-functionally with product, design, QA, manufacturing, firmware/EE, AI/ML, support, and security, and mentor engineering leaders on performance/UX/reliability/cost tradeoffs.
• Own safe shipping and release health—feature flags, progressive rollout, kill-switches, A/B experiments, and telemetry-driven tracking of crash-free rate, performance budgets, and defect counts.

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