Director of Core Platform Engineering

Arcade is building the world’s first AI physical product creation platform, where imagination becomes reality. We are seeking a Director of Core Platform Engineering to own the mission-critical commerce and operations infrastructure, ensuring it is robust, scalable, and built to last while working closely with the CEO and product leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Platform architecture. Enforce clean APIs, horizontally scalable microservices, and modern deployment practices. Create the foundation that allows our entire engineering org to ship fast
• Order fulfillment pipeline. End-to-end order lifecycle from checkout through manufacturer fulfillment — webhooks, status tracking, notifications, and more across a global supply chain
• Real-time pricing engine. Dynamic pricing across a wide variety of product categories. Volume discounts, drop-ship surcharges, and — all exposed as clean, reliable backend APIs for both internal and external stakeholders
• AI inference workloads. Arcade runs image generation jobs at scale. You’ll own the infrastructure that makes these jobs reliable, cost-efficient, and production-grade — think batching, parallelization, auto-scaling, and observability
• Client SDK and MCP. Own the integration layer that allows developers to build applications on top of Arcade — think product creation, order lifecycle management, authentication, and billing