<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>Our team is looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to help build the future of Customer Agent, Klaviyo’s AI-native conversational platform. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in shaping how autonomous service, AI-driven support, and agentic commerce experiences evolve at scale across millions of customer interactions.</p> <p>You’ll work across the stack to design, build, and scale systems that power intelligent workflows, conversational experiences, tools integrations, retrieval systems, onboarding flows, observability, and multi-channel customer engagement. You’ll help develop both foundational platform capabilities and customer-facing experiences that enable brands to launch, customize, and continuously improve their own highly-configurable AI agents.</p> <p>As a Senior Engineer, you’ll tackle complex technical and product challenges, develop multiple solution paths, and evaluate business and architectural trade-offs to determine the best approach. You’ll also act as a technical leader and mentor, driving engineering quality, execution, and decision-making across projects. Additionally, you’ll be responsible for deploying well-designed, thoroughly tested solutions that prioritize reliability, scalability, and customer impact.</p> <p>The Customer Agent team is building one of Klaviyo’s most ambitious and strategic product areas: an extensible AI platform that enables brands to deliver personalized, autonomous customer experiences across channels like chat, email, SMS, and beyond. We operate with high ownership, rapid iteration cycles, and a strong bias toward execution. Every engineer is expected to think holistically about customer outcomes, collaborate deeply across engineering, product, design, data science, and go-to-market teams, and push beyond traditional role boundaries to help the team move faster.</p> <p>Success in this role means shipping high-quality systems quickly, contributing to foundational platform decisions, improving the intelligence and reliability of our agent experiences, and helping define how AI-powered customer engagement evolves at Klaviyo.</p> <p><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></p> <ul> <li>A proven track record of building high-quality products and systems, with pride in writing clean, maintainable, high-quality code.</li> <li>7+ years of experience in a software engineering role.</li> <li>Strong experience developing end-to-end software solutions or extensive experience across both front-end and back-end technologies.</li> <li>Experience building scalable, customer-facing systems in fast-moving product environments - we operate like a startup inside of Klaviyo.</li> <li>Experience leading projects and being accountable for technical and business outcomes.</li> <li>Experience mentoring team members or driving initiatives that help the team grow and learn new skills.</li> <li>Experience conducting code reviews and maintaining a robust testing and deployment cycle.</li> <li>Curiosity and enthusiasm for AI-native product development, including practical experience experimenting with LLMs, AI tooling, or agentic workflows in professional or personal projects.</li> <li>Excitement about leveraging AI to improve engineering velocity, customer experiences, and operational workflows.</li> <li>A strong product mindset and willingness to collaborate cross-functionally to solve ambiguous problems with urgency and pragmatism.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Skills with Python and related technologies.</li> <li>Skills with React and related technologies.</li> <li>Experience building conversational AI systems, workflow engines, or agentic platforms.</li> <li>Experience with retrieval systems, embeddings, eval frameworks, or LLM orchestration patterns.</li> <li>Experience building cloud-native solutions, ideally with AWS.</li> <li>Experience developing customer support, commerce, marketing, or customer data software solutions.</li> <li>Experience with machine learning systems or AI infrastructure.</li> <li>Experience building multi-tenant or highly configurable SaaS platforms.</li> <li>Familiarity with observability, tracing, experimentation, or AI quality/evaluation tooling.</li> </ul> <p>We use Covey as part of our hiring and / or promotional process. 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