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# Software Engineer II at Contentstack

- **Company:** Contentstack
- **Location:** Chennai, India
- **Posted:** 2026-10-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://www.contentstack.com/company/careers/8032547003?gh_jid=8032547003

## 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!

Roles & Responsibilities

- Work across the stack from a code commit to running it in production for our Platform, the shared  service that powers AI features across Contentstack products
- Design, develop and test backend services and APIs from inception to rollout, including model and  provider configuration, usage metering and credit allocation
- Build reliable event-driven integrations (Kafka, Celery)
- Integrate and operate LLM providers (OpenAI, Google Vertex AI/Gemini, Anthropic) securely, including  key management and rotation
- Write high quality code that is scalable, testable, maintainable and reliable
- Independently own and drive new features from scratch, working with Product, QA, DevOps and  partner teams
- Own releases across environments: deployments, sanity checks, hotfixes and rollbacks
- Debug and resolve issues in Kubernetes-based services on GCP, AWS and Azure
- Work in an Agile environment and facilitate agile practices
- Champion best practices, including security hygiene and test automation
- Mentor and guide junior team members
- Continuously improve by working on and providing feedback

Required Skill Sets

- Strong experience with Python on the backend (FastAPI or similar, async programming)
- Strong knowledge of creating scalable REST APIs and clear API contracts
- Working experience with MongoDB; Redis and relational databases are a plus
- Experience with message queues and background workers (Kafka, Celery, RabbitMQ or similar),  including retries, idempotency and backfills
- Practices TDD and has experience writing API and end-to-end test automation
- Strong understanding of Object Oriented Programming and/or Functional Programming concepts
- Understanding of containerization (Docker) and hands-on debugging with Kubernetes
- Basic knowledge of cloud IAM and networking on GCP or AWS
- Experience with setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar)
- Experience integrating LLM APIs (OpenAI, Vertex AI/Gemini, Anthropic) is preferred
- Experience with NodeJS/TypeScript and ReactJS is preferred
- Some experience with alternative protocols like gRPC or GraphQL is preferred
- Familiarity with observability (OpenTelemetry, logs, traces) and security tooling (Snyk, secret scanning)  is preferred
- Experience practicing Agile software development methods is preferred.

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. [PitchBook – Contentstack Profile](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/230954-95)

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