<div class="content-intro"><p><em>At Klaviyo, we value the unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives each Klaviyo (we call ourselves Klaviyos) brings to our workplace each and every day. We believe everyone deserves a fair shot at success and appreciate the experiences each person brings beyond the traditional job requirements. If you’re a close but not exact match with the description, we hope you’ll still consider applying. Want to learn more about life at Klaviyo? Visit <a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu194a _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu18uv _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b18uv _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik18uv _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm18uv _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="http://klaviyo.com/careers" data-renderer-mark="true">klaviyo.com/careers</a> to see how we empower creators to own their own destiny.</em></p></div><p><strong>About the Role</strong></p> <p>At Klaviyo, we believe the future of software lies not in productivity tools for human users but in software that can run and optimize itself based on outcome or reward metrics. We’ve built the infrastructure and application that serve as the interface between businesses and consumers. We now have over 167,000 customers, billions of consumer profiles, and hundreds of billions of customer messages and follow-on conversion data. We have a big opportunity to build state-of-the-art AI and machine learning technologies at Klaviyo to power our products and develop AI agents that can automatically create and execute marketing or customer experiences, strategies, and campaigns for any business.</p> <p>Our team is looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join Flows AI. You’ll help build the backend systems and product experiences behind our AI agent capabilities in Klaviyo’s Flows product. Flows is a core part of Klaviyo that helps marketers automate personalized customer journeys across channels, and our team is focused on making those journeys easier to create, manage, and improve with practical AI. You’ll partner closely with product managers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists to deliver customer impact at scale. This is a full-stack role with opportunities to shape architecture, async processing pipelines, and distributed systems.</p> <p><strong>How You Will Make a Difference</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive the technical design and implementation of customer-facing AI capabilities within Klaviyo Flows.</li> <li>Own projects end to end, from working through ambiguity and refining requirements to shipping and operating production features.</li> <li>Build reliable, scalable full-stack systems, including backend services, async processing pipelines, and product experiences that help marketers create and improve automated journeys.</li> <li>Partner proactively with product, design, and engineering teammates to shape priorities and deliver measurable customer value.</li> <li>Raise the bar for engineering quality, operational health, and technical strategy in a fast-moving product area.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>5-7 years of professional experience</strong> in full-stack software engineering.</li> <li>Have a track record of building and maintaining high-scale, customer-facing product features.</li> <li>Bring experience shipping AI-powered product capabilities or other complex, ambiguous product initiatives in production.</li> <li>Experience creating human and automated evals to ensure high AI model quality.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with one or more front end technologies (React, TypeScript, Angular, Vue, etc.)</li> <li>Experience with Python / Django or similarly typed languages.</li> <li>Experience with designing and managing scalable databases.</li> <li>Experience with asynchronous processing and distributed task queues (Celery, Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ, Redis).</li> <li>Experience with cloud-native architectures (AWS) and container orchestration (Kubernetes); can manage infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with building REST APIs, GraphQL, and other middleware development tools.</li> <li>Able to operate with a high degree of autonomy, handle ambiguity, and thrive in a fast-moving, startup-like environment.</li> <li>Driven by curiosity. You're someone who learns and stays up to date with this rapidly evolving field.</li> <li>Comfortable collaborating directly with product managers and customers to shape solutions.</li> <li>Thrive in customer-focused, fast-moving environments and help make the team around you more effective.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with workflow builders, automation products, or journey-orchestration style systems</li> </ul><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><strong>Massachusetts Applicants:<br></strong>It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.</p> <hr> <p>Our salary range reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The range displayed below reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all our US locations. The base salary offered for this position is determined by several factors, including the applicant’s job-related skills, relevant experience, education or training, and work location.</p> <p>In addition to base salary, our total compensation package may include participation in the company’s annual cash bonus plan, variable compensation (OTE) for sales and customer success roles, equity, sign-on payments, and a comprehensive range of health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits based on eligibility. </p> <p>Your recruiter can provide more details about the specific salary/OTE range