Full-Time
Software Engineer
Backend, AI Systems
Posted on 7/29/2025
Arcade Studio
11-50 employees
Generative AI marketplace for custom products
No salary listed
South Bay, San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
Onsite position.
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- A background in Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, or a similar field
- Must be available to start sometime between January and August 2026
- Experience building and scaling backend systems in production
- Proficiency with Python and backend frameworks such as Django or FastAPI
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure tools like GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, and Pub/Sub
- Hands-on experience with LLM pipelines, model orchestration, or prompt tooling in production or personal projects
- Strong debugging, performance tuning, and system design skills
- Design and build scalable backend systems for model execution, prompt orchestration, agentic workflows, and real-time inference
- Own infrastructure for core user actions, including API design, job queues, caching, observability, and deployment
- Collaborate across AI research, product, and design to bring new capabilities into production
- Build core primitives for text-to-product creation, such as model pipelines, tool integrations, retrieval flows, and evaluation frameworks
- Continuously improve performance, latency, and stability across inference-heavy systems
- Contribute to a high-trust, high-velocity engineering culture
- Are excited about generative AI and have worked with LLMs, agent frameworks, vector search, or multimodal tools
- Move quickly from prototype to production and thrive in high-agency environments
- Care about product quality and user experience, even when working deep in the stack
- Bring energy, taste, and humility to everything they do
- Bonus: experience at early-stage startups, with generative AI products, or in creative tooling
Arcade Studio runs a marketplace where dreamers design custom physical products with generative AI and makers manufacture them through a vetted global network. Dreamers submit prompts; the AI selects materials, picks a maker, and sets a price. The platform takes a percentage of each sale and offers an entrepreneur program for creators to launch product lines without inventory or logistics. Starting with jewelry and expanding to home goods, features like Magic Match generate designs from room photos to match spaces.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$25M
Headquarters
Cape Town, South Africa
Founded
2017
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- $25M Series A in March 2025 from Canaan and Forerunner totals $42M funding.
- Beta generated 650,000 jewelry designs in first three months since September 2024.
- Expands from jewelry to rugs, ceramics, cushions with direct-to-maker pricing.
What critics are saying
- Etsy launches AI tools in Q1 2026, capturing 70% personalized searches.
- Artisans defect to Shopify's 2025 plugin offering 30% higher margins.
- Midjourney partners Printful in April 2026, replicating Magic Match faster.
What makes Arcade Studio unique
- Mariam Naficy co-founded Arcade, leveraging Minted's creator marketplace expertise.
- AI analyzes text prompts to select materials and pair with global artisans.
- Magic Match generates room-complementing rug designs from uploaded photos.
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Growth & Insights and Company News
6 month growth
↓ -21%1 year growth
↓ -21%2 year growth
↓ -21%Arcade, an AI-driven marketplace, raised a $25M Series A from Canaan Partners and Forerunner Ventures, totaling $42M in funding. The company expanded from jewelry to home goods, launching custom-made rugs using AI for design. Users can create personalized designs with the "Magic Match" feature. Arcade's platform empowers consumers to co-create products, offering direct-to-maker pricing and customization. The funding supports further category expansion and AI technology investment.
Arcade, founded by Mariam Naficy, has secured $42 million in funding from investors like LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. The platform combines generative AI with physical manufacturing, allowing users to design custom jewelry and home decor by inputting text or images. Arcade's AI generates 3D design sketches, which are then crafted by artisans. The platform supports various jewelry types and materials, with prices starting at $100. Arcade plans to expand into ceramics, cushions, and potentially clothing.
To propel this expansion and further platform development, Arcade has announced a successful $25 million Series A funding round.
Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding its offerings to include home goods, starting with rugs. The company on Monday Arcade, a generative AI marketplace for designing jewelry, is expanding into home goods, starting with rugs.