AiFi is a spatial intelligence platform that helps businesses understand and operate physical spaces using real‑time AI. Built on a camera‑first, privacy‑conscious foundation, our platform transforms physical environments into actionable systems—improving operations, elevating customer experiences, and unlocking measurable business value. AiFi is building toward a future where the physical world is as searchable, observable, and understandable as the digital one.
Across grocery and convenience, venues, specialty retail, quick-service restaurants, and travel hubs, AiFi helps customers solve problems such as fraud prevention, out-of-stock and planogram optimization, 24/7 commerce enablement, no-line premium entry, omnichannel analytics, labor optimization, order accuracy, and frictionless access. With global deployments across diverse formats, AiFi is building a powerful real-world data foundation that continually improves the intelligence and adaptability of its platform.
Responsibilities
- Lead on optimizing our highly concurrent systems
- Scale the store operating systems from small stores to gigantic venues
- Make design decisions in the process of developing our core backend microservices
- Work closely with app developers and product managers to understand the use cases that we need to cover and their potential bottlenecks
- Work with deployment engineers to ensure that what you build goes as quickly as possible to the clients
Requirements
- BS/MS in computer science or related field
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer (Backend)
- 2+ years of experience using TypeScript
- 2+ years of experience working in node.js for web applications backend
- Highly skilled in unit testing, experience with Jest testing framework
- Highly skilled in RESTful API design and REST API usage
- Proficiency with data modeling, static typing, and SQL
- Proficiency in using Docker
- Experience with event driven or real-time systems
- Experience with TypeScript / JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g. NestJS)
- Experience with Python, GoLang, or C#
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Postgres
- Experience with Frontend Development (React, React Native) is a plus
- Experience with Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS is a plus
Preferred Additional Qualifications
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field
- Skilled in Kubernetes, experience with kustomize or helm
- Experience with MongoDB
- Experience with gRPC
- Experience in e-commerce software, checkout processes, payments, virtual POS or other related systems
Skills Required
- BS/MS in computer science or related field
- 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer (Backend)
- 2+ years of experience using TypeScript
- 2+ years of experience working in node.js for web applications backend
- Highly skilled in unit testing, experience with Jest testing framework
- Highly skilled in RESTful API design and REST API usage
- Proficiency with data modeling, static typing, and SQL
- Proficiency in using Docker
- Experience with event driven or real-time systems
- Experience with TypeScript / JavaScript backend frameworks (e.g. NestJS)
- Experience with Python, GoLang, or C#
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Postgres
- Experience with Frontend Development (React, React Native) is a plus
- Experience with Domain Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS is a plus
What We Do
AiFi provides the most flexible AI platform that enables retailers to affordably deploy and scale autonomous shopping solutions across their businesses. Leveraging computer vision, AiFi adapts to existing store formats without the need for shelf sensors, and provides advanced tracking algorithms that can scale up to 10,000 square feet to support various shopper journeys such as an app, credit card, gated, or hybrid entry. AiFi works with top retailers worldwide such as ALDI South Group, Carrefour, Compass Group, Morrisons, Żabka Group, REWE, and Verizon. AiFi has the highest number of computer vision powered autonomous stores across the globe. The company has raised a total of $80 million from investors including Verizon Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, HP Tech Ventures, Mithril Capital, Cervin Ventures, TransLink Capital, Plum Alley, Duke Angel Network, Reaction, GS Future, Drive Catalyst, and Evolution. For more information, please visit aifi.com.
