Senior Software Engineer, AI

Centro Chicago, IL $141,000 - $183,000
Full Time Senior Level 5+ years

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About This Role

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

Python * AWS * REST APIs * Snowflake * S3 * LangChain * Langgraph * LangSmith * MCP * Langfuse * Claude Agent SDK *

* Required skills

Benefits

Mental Health Support
401k/RRSP matching
Flexible work week
Paid sabbaticals
Generous parental leave

About Centro

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.

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