Software Engineer (Connectors & MCP)

Join WRITER, a rapidly evolving AI-powered solutions company. As a Software Engineer, you'll design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms, own backend service design, and set technical direction for identity, auth, and trust boundaries. You'll partner with product and cross-functional engineering leaders, lead production excellence, and raise the engineering bar through architecture reviews and mentorship. Enjoy benefits like employer-covered medical plans, flexible location and schedule options, company stock options, and generous PTO.

• Design and deliver secure, scalable AI integration platforms that connect enterprise systems and power mission-critical automation.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of the AI integration client ecosystem, defining how AI applications securely connect to external tools, data sources, and enterprise systems.
• Lead production excellence through a metrics-first reliability strategy, defining and enforcing SLOs/SLAs, maturing observability, and driving resilience, incident readiness, and performance optimization at scale.
• Practical expertise building AI integration layers (e.g., MCP clients/servers, tool orchestration, external API connectors, auth mediation), not just prompt or model experimentation
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity: partner cross-functionally, mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and own delivery from design through production
• 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production backend systems using Typescript, Deno, Node.js, or Bun; scope and leveling can flex across Senior to Staff based on architectural impact and leadership
• Solid backend fundamentals in modern server frameworks and data systems (e.g., TypeScript/Node or Python ecosystems, PostgreSQL), with ability to choose the right tool for the system; experience with Python is a plus but not required
• You embody our core values of Connect, Challenge, and Own. You build strong partnerships across teams, challenge conventional thinking to drive innovation, and take ownership of your work with a focus on delivering meaningful impact and excellence
• Strong experience designing and shipping API-driven platform services and distributed systems, including microservices, event-driven patterns, and secure service-to-service communication
• Proven cloud-native experience on AWS, GCP, or Azure, including containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes), CI/CD, and production operations
• Deep hands-on knowledge of authentication and security patterns for third-party integrations (OAuth2/OIDC, API keys, token lifecycle, secret management, least-privilege access)
• Strong experience with observability and reliability engineering, including defining/operating service metrics, SLOs/SLAs, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning