Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Full Stack

Job overview

The Staff Software Engineer, AI-Native Full Stack role is onsite in Mundelein, IL, and compensation is not specified. Sauce builds restaurant technology for commission-free delivery and pickup and delivery optimization. This founding-level engineering role turns loosely defined product problems into shipped solutions for restaurants and their customers. The engineer owns end-to-end development, including AI-native features, production feedback loops, and collaboration with product and operations.

What you'll do

• Design, build, deploy, and iterate on product ideas
• develop AI-native features using agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool use, structured outputs, and evaluations
• own frontend, backend, data, and model integration
• establish production feedback loops through evaluations and telemetry
• make build-versus-buy decisions
• partner with product and operations on restaurant problems.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

staff software engineer

ai-native product

full-stack engineering

llm apis

typescript

python

agents

rag

production software

restaurant technology

delivery optimization

mundelein il

sauce

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Competitive compensation package including equity
• company-sponsored health, dental, vision, and mental health insurance
• paid parental leave
• paid time off.

Why this role

Founding-level role shaping AI across a restaurant technology platform; competitive compensation package including equity, company-sponsored health, dental, vision, and mental health insurance, paid parental leave, and paid time off.

About the employer

Sauce is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.