Senior Software Engineer, AI
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This role involves collaborating with Data Science and Product teams to design, build, and ship LLM-powered features. It focuses on the development of agent systems that automate complex media planning workflows and scale intelligent systems for programmatic advertising.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Data Science and Product teams to design, build, and ship LLM-powered features across the media buying platform
- Design and build agents using frameworks including LangChain and LangGraph to automate complex media planning workflows
- Develop MCP servers and APIs that connect internal and external agents to the media buying toolkit
- Build and tune agent orchestration workflows, including evaluation and observability, to ensure agents reason, plan, and execute reliably
- Rapidly experiment with emerging agentic approaches while guiding stable, scalable architectural decisions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering
- Recent hands-on work building LLM-powered applications or agent systems
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience building production APIs, backend services, and integrations with emerging protocols such as MCP
- Familiarity with agent frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph
- Experience with evaluation tools like LangSmith or Langfuse
- Ability to move quickly from prototype to production, balancing speed with code quality and reliability
- Strong communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and commitment to creating inclusive environments
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, with recent hands-on work building LLM-powered applications or agent systems
Nice to Have
- Prior experience in ad tech, media planning systems, or programmatic advertising platforms
- Experience designing skill-based or MCP tool sets for autonomous agents
- Experience building, tuning, and evaluating production-grade agentic systems
- Familiarity with prompt engineering, structured outputs, and techniques for improving agent reliability
- Experience with RAG systems, vector databases, or knowledge retrieval approaches
- Background in building developer tools, SDKs, or API-first products
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
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Basis empowers agencies and brands with cutting-edge software that automates digital media operations, providing an all-in-one platform for seamless planning, reporting, and financial reconciliation.