--- title: 'AI-Native Software Engineer at Contentstack' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/ai-native-software-engineer-contentstack-chennai-779jq92zswwa' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-20' --- # AI-Native Software Engineer at Contentstack - **Company:** Contentstack - **Location:** Chennai, India - **Posted:** 2026-10-20 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20 - **Apply:** https://www.contentstack.com/company/careers/8012782003?gh_jid=8012782003 ## Job 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 [www.contentstack.com](http://www.contentstack.com/). 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. - Explore and integrate AI-powered media features such as smart cropping, background removal,  auto-tagging, and automated metadata generation for images and videos. - Build and improve asset usage tracking, so users can see where assets are referenced before  changing or deleting them. - Contribute to upcoming roadmap areas around security, collaboration, and sharing. Roles & Responsibilities AI-Native Engineering Practice - Use AI tools and agents as your primary development partners for designing, writing, refactoring,  testing, and reviewing code, while staying fully accountable for the correctness, security, and  maintainability of everything you ship. - Break down product requirements into technical designs and implementation plans with AI  assistance, and validate them against the existing architecture and constraints. - Build and maintain reusable prompts, agent workflows, and project context so the rest of the team can adopt the same AI SDLC practices. - Use AI agents for multi-step work such as large refactors, API changes, test generation, and bug  triage. - Measure and share the impact of AI-driven workflows on cycle time, quality, and defect rates, and  continuously improve the team's practices. - Follow company policies on data privacy and security when using AI tools, especially around  customer data, secrets, and asset content. Quality, Reliability, and Operations - Own quality end to end, with no separate QA hand-off. This includes writing and maintaining  automated tests (unit, integration, and end-to-end) with AI assistance, covering core flows such as  upload, retrieval, editing, delivery, and permissions. - Oversee AI-driven code reviews by setting review standards, validating AI findings, and giving final  approval before changes are merged. - Investigate and resolve production issues and customer-reported bugs, using AI to speed up log  analysis, root-cause analysis, and fix verification. - Participate in on-call rotations and incident response, and contribute to runbooks and  postmortems. - Keep technical documentation current, including API docs, design documents, and onboarding  guides, using AI to draft and maintain them. Collaboration - Work closely with Product, Design, and partner engineering teams on cross-team features. Mentor other engineers on effective, responsible AI-assisted development. Mandatory Skills - 6+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend services and APIs. • Demonstrated, hands-on experience using AI coding tools and agents in daily work, with concrete  examples of shipping production features through AI-driven workflows. - Strong skills in prompt design, 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. What Do We Offer? Interesting Work | We hire curious trendspotters and brave trendsetters. This is NOT your boring, routine, cushy, rest-and-vest corporate job. This is the “challenge yourself” role where you learn something new every day, never stop growing, and have fun while you’re doing it. Tribe Vibe | We are more than colleagues, we are a tribe. We have a strict “no a**hole policy” and enforce it diligently. This means we spend time together - with spontaneous office happy hours, organized outings, and community volunteer opportunities. We are a diverse and distributed team, but we like to stay connected. Bragging Rights | We are dreamers and dream makers. Our efforts pay off and we work with the most prestigious brands, from big-name retailers to airlines, to professional sports teams. Your contribution will make an impact with many of the most recognizable names in almost every industry including AirFrance KLM, ASICS, Burberry, Mattel, Mitsubishi, Walmart, and many more! One Team One Dream | This is one of our values, and it shows. We don’t believe in artificial hierarchies. If you’re part of the tribe, you have an opportunity to contribute. Your voice will be heard and you will also receive regular updates about the business and its performance. Which, btw, is through the roof, so it’s a great time to be joining… To review our Privacy Policy, please click [here](https://www.contentstack.com/legal/privacy-notice-for-candidates/). ## About Contentstack ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Contentstack provides a composable, headless content management system (CMS) now evolved into an Agentic Experience Platform (AXP) that unifies content, real-time data, and AI agents to enable hyper-personalized digital experiences. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C) - **Headquarters**: Austin, Texas, United States - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Neha Sampat, Nishant Patel (co-founders) ## Core Business - **Primary Industry**: Digital Experience Platforms (DXP), Headless CMS, Content Management - **Target Customers**: B2B, Enterprise (Fortune 500 brands such as Air France-KLM, Mattel) - **Mission Statement**: “Driven by innovation and grounded in care, we enable the world’s best brands to reimagine possible.” - **Vision**: “The world’s best digital experiences run on Contentstack.” ## Products & Services - **Agentic Experience Platform (AXP)**: Unified platform combining a headless CMS, real-time customer data, and agentic AI to generate, translate, and personalize content at scale. - **Headless CMS**: API-first, cloud-based content management backend for omnichannel delivery. - **Contentstack Analytics**: Unified customer data and analytics for real-time journey orchestration. - **Intelligent Agents**: AI agents that use brand context and reasoning to automate content tasks. - **Asset Management**: Integrated DAM with automated tagging and file management. - **Front-End Hosting**: MACH-compliant, fully integrated hosting for faster content publishing. ## Market Standing - **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (PitchBook lists valuation data behind paywall; no public figure available). - **Key Metrics**: - **Annual Revenue**: $105 million (reported on LinkedIn). - **Total Funding**: $169 million across four rounds (Seed, Series A, B, C). - **Notable Investors & Partners**: Insight Partners (lead), Georgian, Ginger Bread Capital, Illuminate Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Employee count: 546 ( +2% YoY). - Operations in 16 countries (India, Netherlands, UK, Australia, France, etc.). - Named in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Experience Platforms, Q4 2025. - 80% faster content publishing reported by customers. ## Competitive Advantages - **Pioneer in Headless CMS**: One of the first to decouple content from presentation, now extended with AI agents. - **MACH-Compliant**: Microservices, API-first, Cloud-native, Headless – ensuring enterprise-grade agility. - **Agentic AI Integration**: “Agent OS” allows brands to deploy intelligent agents with brand context and guardrails. - **Strong Analyst Recognition**: Forrester Wave leader and trusted by Fortune 500 brands like Air France-KLM and Mattel. - **Global Scale**: Distributed engineering and sales teams across 16 countries. ## Strategic Focus - **Agentic Experience Platform (AXP)**: Transition from pure headless CMS to an AI-powered orchestration layer that unifies content, data, and agents. - **Personalization at Scale**: Using AI to generate, translate, and personalize content in real-time for hyper-relevance. - **Enterprise Adoption**: Deepening capabilities for large regulated industries (e.g., aviation, retail) while maintaining composability. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “One team, one dream” – founder-led, with a strong emphasis on care, diversity, and community. Values include “Grounded in Care,” “A Connected Tribe,” and “Diverse & Inclusive.” - **Remote/Hybrid**: Globally distributed team with offices in Austin, TX and Mumbai, India. Management trusts employees to work in ways that energize them (flexible remote/hybrid culture). - **Perks**: 16 hours of paid volunteer time annually, Contentstack Cares Month (March) for community service, sustainability program (3,800+ trees planted), Pledge 1% member (1% of staff time, product, equity to nonprofits). - **Engineering Culture**: API-first, headless architecture, modern tooling. Engineering represents 43% of workforce (291 employees). Strong talent sources from MACH Alliance, Raw Engineering, commercetools. - **Recognition**: Awarded for diversity, community impact, and workplace excellence. ## Sources 1. [contentstack.com – Careers](https://www.contentstack.com/company/careers) 2. [contentstack.com – About](https://www.contentstack.com/about) 3. [contentstack.com – Platform](https://www.contentstack.com/) 4. [LinkedIn – Contentstack](https://www.linkedin.com/company/contentstack) 5. 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