AI-Native Software Engineer
Backend engineer at Contentstack (Chennai) building the Assets Platform: services and APIs for asset management, permissions, CDN delivery, and image/video processing, including AI-powered media features. Uses AI coding tools and agents as primary development partners, with 6+ years backend experience in distributed systems, REST/gRPC, cloud, and multi-tenant SaaS.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Chennai
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 6+ years
- Category
- Software engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and APIs
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools and agents in daily work, with examples of shipping production features through AI-driven workflows
- Strong prompt design skills, providing effective context to AI tools and critically evaluating AI output
- Experience with distributed systems, REST and gRPC APIs, event-driven architecture, and cloud infrastructure
- Solid understanding of access control, data security, and multi-tenant SaaS systems
- Strong testing discipline and debugging skills, with experience owning quality without a dedicated QA function
Full description
What is Contentstack?
Contentstack is redefining how modern digital experiences are built and managed. As the pioneer of the Agentic Experience Platform (AXP), Contentstack brings together structured content and brand governance (Content Cloud), real-time customer data, omnichannel personalization (Data Cloud) and autonomous AI orchestration (Agent OS) into one unified system.
While many organizations adopted headless CMS or standalone AI tools expecting transformation, they often found themselves managing disconnected systems and manual workflows. Contentstack helps enterprises move beyond that complexity by connecting content, data and AI in a way that makes digital experiences faster to launch, easier to manage and more adaptive in real time.
Leading brands including Steve Madden, LG Electronics, Subaru of America, Dolce & Gabbana, ASICS, Decathlon, and Caesars Entertainment rely on Contentstack to reduce operational friction and deliver personalized, scalable digital experiences with confidence. The company is known for its customer-first culture and commitment to the communities it serves through the Contentstack Cares program.
Learn more at .
Who Are We?
At Contentstack we are more than colleagues, we are a tribe. Our vision is to pursue equity among our communities, employees, partners, and customers. We are global-diverse yet close; distributed yet connected. We are dreamers and dreammakers who challenge the status quo. We do the right thing, even when no one is watching. We are curious trendspotters and brave trendsetters. Our mission is to make Contentstack indispensable for organizations to tell their stories and to connect with the people they care about through inspiring, modern experiences. We care deeply about our customers and the communities we serve. #OneTeamOneDream. Chalo, let’s go!
-
What you will be working on Assets Platform Development
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs for managing assets, including organization structures, folders, files, and metadata, along with their create, update, and delete flows.
- Implement and evolve access control and permission features, including sharing assets with users and teams and managing visibility settings.
- Build features for secure and performant asset delivery, including CDN delivery, caching, and event driven integrations with other platform services.
- Build and enhance image editing capabilities such as cropping, resizing, rotation, format conversion, compression, and on-the-fly image transformations for delivery.
- Build and enhance video editing and processing capabilities such as trimming, transcoding, thumbnail generation, and optimized streaming and playback.