Webgility - Senior Staff Engineer AI & Agentic Engineering

Job Description : Role : Senior Staff Engineer AI & Agentic EngineeringLocation : India (Flexible WFO preferred, otherwise 2 quarterly visits are compulsory)The Role : As Senior Staff Engineer, you will be one of the senior-most individual contributors driving that shift from the engineering side turning "we should use AI here" into working, production systems. This is not a role where the product hands you a spec. You will often be the one deciding what is worth building before anyone else has framed the problem.Your core mandate is threefold : - Build agentic capability into the core platform. Design and ship AI/agent-driven features - autonomous workflows, decision engines, LLM-integrated tooling - into a commerce platform already processing billions in transaction volume.- Operate at the edge of ambiguity. Take a rough direction, not a groomed backlog, and turn it into a scoped, shippable plan yourself. You will be trusted to define the "what" as much as the "how."- Set the technical bar for how we build with AI. You will not be the only engineer touching this space - you will help shape the standard others follow.What You Will Walk Into : - An agentic initiative already underway - early proof-of-concept work has shipped, momentum exists, but there is no dedicated senior technical owner driving it end-to-end yet.- A production platform with deep integrations across QuickBooks, Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and more - technically complex and high-stakes.- Owning distinct areas of the platform - you will have real IC peers at your level, not just reports.- A manager who will be a technical thought partner, not a filter - you will engage directly with architecture and roadmap decisions, not through a PM layer.What You Will Do : Agentic Product Development : - Design and build AI/agent-driven features across the commerce platform - from proof-of-concept to production.- Own ambiguous, 0-to-1 problems end-to-end without waiting on a fully-groomed spec.Technical Ownership & Craft : - Make and defend architecture calls independently; bring options with tradeoffs, not open-ended questions.- Partner with our architecture function on how agentic systems integrate cleanly into the existing platform layer, rather than bypassing it.Roadmap & Direction : - Partner with engineering and product leadership on what to build, not just receive requirements - shape the roadmap, do not just consume it.- Identify where AI creates real leverage for customers (vs. where it is just a buzzword) and make the case for it.Cross-Functional Leadership : - Set technical direction for others working in the agentic space; raise the bar on how the team builds with AI.- Communicate decisions and tradeoffs clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.What We Are Looking For : Must-haves : - 8+ years in backend/systems engineering, with real production experience owning complex systems end-to-end.- Hands-on fluency with AI/LLM tooling - you have built with agents, RAG, tool-calling, or similar, not just used ChatGPT.- Demonstrated comfort operating without a fully-defined spec - a track record of shaping a fuzzy problem into a concrete, shippable plan.- Strong, independent architectural judgment - comfortable defending a design decision under scrutiny.- Self-directed - you do not need a product manager to break down the work before you can start.- Clear communicator - can explain a technical decision and its tradeoffs to both engineers and leadership.Strong advantages : - Experience with .NET / C# (our core stack).- Prior experience in a startup or small-team environment where you owned ambiguity by necessity, not choice.- Exposure to e-commerce, ERP, or integration-heavy platforms.Why Join Webgility : - Real impact : Your work directly shapes how thousands of small businesses operate, not just how data moves between systems.- Builder's role : You are defining Webgility's agentic capability, not maintaining an established roadmap someone else set.- Domain depth : Ecommerce + accounting is a complex, high-stakes integration problem with a large TAM.- Direct access : You will work closely with engineering leadership on architecture and direction, with real influence over what gets built next.Webgility is an equal opportunity employer. We value diverse perspectives and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. (ref:hirist.tech)