Description
Cricut is a company that enables people to create and customize various items. As a Lead Software Engineer (API/Agentic), you will spend most of your time writing, reviewing, and shipping production backend code.
You will use agentic coding tools as a core part of your daily workflow, including AI-assisted code review, automated test generation, and AI-augmented development, while maintaining code quality, security, and human oversight.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Designing and building APIs and services end-to-end
- Contributing to backend architecture across C#/.NET and Python services
- Defining clear, versioned API contracts
- Working closely with Product Management, UX, and client engineers
- Optimizing service performance and scalability
- Writing and maintaining automated tests
- Driving CI/CD automation and release quality
- Shipping behind feature flags with progressive rollout
- Owning service health through observability
- Participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge with other engineers
- Evaluating new backend, cloud, AI, and tooling technologies
Requirements:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 8+ years of professional backend software development experience
- Deep expertise in either C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core) or Python (FastAPI/Django)
- Experience designing and running backend architectures at scale
- Strong API design skills using REST
- Strong experience with relational and NoSQL data stores
- Understanding of concurrency models in primary language
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, containers, and orchestration
- Practical use of modern AI engineering tools
- Experience with architectural patterns such as Clean Architecture and Domain-Driven Design
- Strong debugging, profiling, and performance optimization skills
Soft skills:
- Clear communication
- Collaboration with Product Management, UX, and client teams
- Sharing knowledge and helping other engineers grow
- Curiosity about new tools and techniques
Benefits:
- Competitive Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
- 401(k) match
- Generous PTO
- Tuition reimbursement
- Yearly lifestyle stipend
- Exclusive employee discounts