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Eggs Unlimited are hiring a Lead Platform Engineer - On-Site (Irvine)

Senior Irvine, California, United States $180k–$210k posted 2026-09-16

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Eggs Unlimited is one of the world’s largest suppliers of eggs, servicing the biggest retail and food manufacturing companies around the globe. Every day, we find homes for millions of eggs by tapping into our vast supply chain and customer networks. Bringing sellers and buyers together in fair market negotiations, we open up a world of possibilities for expanding their knowledge, reach, and access. With dedicated service teams and a mission to uphold transparency and trustworthiness, we create quick and creative solutions to help manage the ever-evolving demands of the global egg industry.

Job Summary:

The Role
We leverage AI to bring food to every table.
You are a hands-on platform engineer embedded with operations. You define the platform the business runs on and build every layer of it: the product a desk uses, the infrastructure under it, and the harness the team ships through. You own the outcome, not the component. AI-assisted development is how the work gets done. Human judgment, controls, and production quality are not negotiable.

The Problem We Are Solving
We are building the intelligent operating platform behind a global food supply chain, combining leading models, our own operational data and business rules, and the judgment of the people who trade for a living.
Extracting an order from an email is no longer the hard part. The loop is. Forecast where the market is going, project demand forward by customer and by product, and know what we are long and short on any given day. Then decide what to buy and what to sell, build the load, and book the freight against a computed view of what that lane is actually worth. Trading, supply, freight, and the ledger stop being separate systems stitched together by a spreadsheet and become one connected flow, with a named person accountable at every point where money moves.

The product layer is largely greenfield. You will be building it, not maintaining someone else's version of it, though it has to work with the operational systems the business already runs on. We move quickly and we build practical solutions that scale, not demos.
None of that loop works in pieces: a forecast is only as good as the data under it, and a booked load has to reach the ledger intact. Somebody has to design the platform that makes it one flow, and build it. That is you.

The Orchestrator

The person in this seat does not draw a diagram and wait. They take an idea, direct a fleet of agents at it, and produce the working system themselves, at a volume of output that would not have been possible from one person two years ago. If your monthly token consumption would look alarming to a traditional engineering manager, you are probably working the way we work. What we measure is not the volume: it is whether you decompose work well, keep context under control, catch the plausible and wrong answer, and stand behind what ships.

You do not need prior experience in our exact stack. What matters is whether you can build things, whether you take ownership, and whether you can hold the big picture while you do it. Think like a customer, act like an owner.

This seat pairs that with a solution architecture background. You sit with the traders, the purchasing coordinators, and the logistics desks to see how the work actually crosses systems, then build every layer of the answer yourself. The architect builds here. We are not looking for someone who produces a design and hands it to somebody else to implement.

What You Will Own

The Shape of the Platform: Start from the loop, not the ticket. Decide what the platform has to become three capabilities from now, and build today's piece so nobody has to tear it out. Think big, and ship the first slice this month.
Building the Product: Take a validated need to monitored production yourself: the data model, the services, the integrations, and the screen or channel an operator actually works in.
Building What It Runs On: Environments, pipelines, data stores, event flows, identity, and the contracts with the ERP core, partners, and customers, built as code. You decide what the platform is and build it; the engineering lead decides what it has to meet, and reviews it against that.
Building the Harness: The substrate the team and its agents ship on: fixtures, replay of real operating history, test data, and the CI scaffolding that lets everyone move fast without shipping blind.
When a Dependency Is Slow, Wrong, or Down: Decide what happens at every seam before it happens: retries, fallbacks, reconciliation, and the handback to a person. Money moves through these seams, so the numbers have to tie out to the ledger.
Closing What Let It Happen: When something goes wrong where a desk meets it, fix it, whichever service, system, or vendor it passed through, and then close the gap that let it happen so it does not come back. "That is the other system" is not an answer here.
Agent Orchestration: Decompose a problem into work that can run in parallel, direct agents at it, control context, reconcile conflicting output, test what comes back, and remain responsible for the final system. This is an operating capability, not a tool preference.
Engineering Standards: Ship maintainable, tested, observable, secure systems, with explicit evaluations, audit trails, rollback paths, and safe failure modes. Agent-generated work is held to the same production standard as anything you type.

What Success Looks Like
In your first 90 days:

In your first six months:In your first year:The clearest sign that you are succeeding: the next capability takes weeks instead of months, because what you built last time is still standing underneath it.

What You BringWe do not screen on years of experience, and we do not screen on which technologies you have used. Seniority here is calibrated by scope, judgment, autonomy, and outcomes. Show us what you have built.

Helpful ExperienceTeam, Environment, and How Decisions Get Made

You report to the Director of Technology and join a small, senior engineering team. This is a lead role in scope and judgment, not in headcount: it does not manage people. The engineering lead sets the engineering and evaluation bar, owns the guardrails, and is the second reviewer on your work. Infrastructure, identity, and access control are part of what this seat builds, and the work here does not come in lanes: infrastructure, business logic, or the harness, you pick up whatever the week needs. Priorities are agreed with the Director of Technology and the business leaders who own the affected desks.
Our environment spans cloud services on Azure, relational and event-sourced data stores, services in Go and Python, a TypeScript front end, an enterprise ERP core, and a retrieval layer over the company's own operating history. You will not be expected to have used all of it.

Why Eggs Unlimited

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