Senior Platform Engineer
About the role
Senior Platform Engineer at Kilvin, an AI-native software agency that builds custom internal tools for non-technical teams, delivering via Kilvin's platform. High-ownership role shaping core infrastructure, multi-tenancy, and AI-assisted tooling.
Responsibilities
- The app runtime and workspace - how custom apps are deployed, isolated, and served to clients inside a single secure environment.
- The build & deploy pipeline - the AI-assisted system that takes a user request from requirements to specs to software to working software.
- Multi-tenancy and access control - tenant isolation, fine-grained permissions (who can open which app and see which data), and the auth model underneath it.
- Integrations - a framework for connecting client apps to CRMs, spreadsheets, email, and databases they rely on, so data moves between systems.
- Reliability & observability - monitoring, performance, and tooling to run many production deployments with confidence.
Qualifications
- 6+ years building and operating production software, with meaningful time spent on platform, infrastructure, or backend systems.
- Strong fundamentals in distributed systems, data modeling, and API design.
- Experience with multi-tenancy, auth/permissions, or sandboxing.
- Experience with LLM orchestration or AI-assisted code generation in production.
Skills
Benefits
- Health benefits through a QSEHRA: tax-free monthly reimbursement toward health insurance premiums and qualified medical expenses.

About Kilvin
Custom software for non-technical teams.
Kilvin is an AI-native agency that builds custom software solutions for non-technical teams. With AI, the future of software is democratized. Every team deserves tools built exactly for them, not off-the-shelf SaaS products they need to adapt to. Kilvin makes it a reality, delivering a private, secure workspace of custom applications, built around your workflows and ready in days, not months. No engineers needed on your side. Just software that fits exactly how you work.
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