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Syndigo powers the continual flow of data and content throughout the entire commerce ecosystem— accelerating delivery of accurate and compelling information that increases sales on every shelf. We are the recognized leader in software and services for the management of master data, product information, digital assets, and content syndication and analytics across industries including grocery, foodservice, hardlines, home improvement, oil & gas, pet, health and beauty, automotive, apparel, and healthcare products.
Syndigo serves the industry’s largest two-sided network, connecting more than 50,000 global users across 12,000+ global brands with more than 1,750 global retailers.
Basically, we're the people that deliver the rich, accurate product content that helps consumers shop online with confidence, and helps brands and retailers operate efficient product supply chains. We cannot do all of this without our amazing employees who make the magic happen here at Syndigo. As we continue to grow, we’re always looking to identify talented individuals to join our team.
**This is a hybrid position that requires two days in the Chicago office**
Pre-sales isn’t just about explaining a product—it’s about helping people see what’s possible. It’s about understanding, guiding, and storytelling. When done well, pre-sales transforms complexity into clarity, ideas into solutions, and prospects into customers.
For those of us who’ve spent years refining this craft, we know there’s nothing quite like the moment when a client truly gets it—when they can see how your platform fits their world, solves their challenge, and moves their business forward. That’s what great pre-sales does, and that’s what we’re looking for in our next Solutions Engineer.
This role isn’t just about running through a demo script or ticking off a checklist. It’s about engaging, challenging, and inspiring. It’s about knowing your audience—when to dive deep into technical detail and when to elevate the conversation to business value. It’s about being adaptable, resourceful, and always looking for ways to enhance the story we tell and the way we tell it.
If you love problem-solving, storytelling, and shaping client decisions, we’d love to talk.
HOW WE’LL BE WINNING TOGETHER DAY TO DAY
- Consult and Collaborate: Work with prospects to deeply understand their business challenges across industries and data domains. Tailor consultative approaches to guide them towards impactful outcomes.
- Deliver Engaging Demonstrations: Bring our expertise to life through impactful, value-driven demonstrations and presentations—showcasing how our capabilities align with their needs.
- Elevate the Narrative: Shift conversations beyond technical details to meaningful discussions about differentiation, business outcomes, and industry trends.
- Push the Boundaries: Use our API framework and SDK to explore creative ways to extend our capabilities, tailoring innovative solutions to meet the unique needs of prospects and their use cases.
- Drive Competitive Edge: Use your expertise to create messaging and collateral that highlight our strengths and establish us as a trusted partner in PIM, MDM, PXM, and Syndication.
- Own Your Demo Environments: Take responsibility for configuring, maintaining, and optimising your demo accounts and software environments. Ensure they are always ready to deliver seamless, impactful, and tailored demonstrations.
- Collaborate Across Teams: Partner with sales, product management, and marketing to refine our offerings, address customer feedback, and stay ahead of market demands.
- Support and Inspire the Team: Help your fellow team members shine by sharing ideas, providing support, and showcasing the team’s achievements. Drive efforts that move the needle and elevate the art of pre-sales within the team, fostering collaboration and innovation.
WE SHOULD TALK IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU
We need someone who understands pre-sales at its core—who sees it as more than just answering questions, but rather as crafting experiences that resonate.
- 5+ years of Solution Engineering Experience in a SaaS environment
- Technical Expertise: A strong grasp of APIs, cloud-native technologies, and the ability to quickly learn and articulate complex capabilities. You thrive on exploring possibilities within our API framework and SDK to creatively extend our offerings and meet unique prospect use cases.
- Industry Knowledge: Proven experience in the areas of PIM, MDM, PXM, Syndication, and E-commerce—ideally in multi-domain contexts.
- Consultative Mindset: Ability to position capabilities as enablers of business value, rather than just technical tools.
- Communication Skills: A polished and persuasive communicator with a knack for simplifying complex ideas and building trust with diverse stakeholders.
- Self-Motivation: A proactive, solution-oriented attitude that drives you to deliver results independently and collaboratively.
- Presentation Mastery: Experience delivering engaging product demonstrations to both technical and business audiences.
- Strategic Insight: Familiarity with competitive landscapes and industry trends to refine messaging and support differentiation efforts.
- Creative Problem-Solving: A desire to push the boundaries of what’s possible, using innovation and technical acumen to create tailored solutions that address specific business challenges.
Your individual compensation within the budgeted salary range is determined based on your skills, education, experience, and internal equity. This position is commission eligible.
For full-time U.S. based-employees, we offer competitive health insurance benefits, PTO and volunteer time off, employer-paid short- and long-term disability, parental and adoption leave, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
To achieve the best version of our organization, we know it takes new ideas, new approaches, new perspectives and new ways of thinking. A purpose we are 100% committed to cultivating.
Diversity is woven into our fabric at Syndigo and it’s how we stay an industry leader, innovating technology solutions that equip our customers with everything they need to be successful!
All are welcome here and we invite you to join our team if you are ready to help us continue that growth!
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Full Stack Software Engineer - Robotics Platform
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Who we are:
Formic is on a mission to reshape American manufacturing by making automation accessible to every factory. As labor constraints rise, costs increase, and global competition intensifies, automation is no longer optional for manufacturers that want to stay competitive.
We deliver automation through a Robotics-as-a-Service model that combines industrial robotics, proprietary software, and full-service support into a single, integrated solution. By removing the traditional barriers of cost, complexity, and risk, we enable manufacturers to deploy automation quickly and realize measurable gains in throughput, safety, and operational efficiency without large upfront capital investment.
Backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Initialized Capital, Blackhorn Ventures, and Mitsubishi HC Capital North America, Formic is scaling rapidly and building the foundation for a new era of high-performance, Made in America production.
About the Engineering Team
As part of our Engineering team, you will help build and evolve the monitoring stack for industrial robotic systems. We are rethinking how these systems are designed, deployed, and maintained—and we’re looking for engineers who challenge the status quo.
Our work sits at the intersection of AI, modern robotics, and scalable software systems. We aim to make industrial robotics more intelligent, reliable, and easier to operate.
We are an AI-first development team, leveraging cutting-edge tools and practices to move quickly while maintaining strong safety and reliability standards in production environments.
What You’ll Do
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will:
- Design and develop backend infrastructure powering our robotics platform, including:
- System provisioning
- Data collection pipelines
- Monitoring and remote troubleshooting
- AI-driven fleet intelligence
- Collaborate closely with robotics engineers to design robust interfaces between hardware and software systems
- Build software across both edge and cloud environments to enable reliable data ingestion, processing, and system orchestration
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure system reliability and maintainability
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to team planning and execution
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- 5+ years of experience in full stack software development using Python and modern frontend frameworks (React, React Native, or similar)
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems (IoT, robotics, automotive, or similar domains preferred)
- Hands-on experience developing AI-enabled applications or workflows
- Strong understanding of Linux systems
- Experience with AWS (AWS IoT experience is a plus)
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Datadog)
- Experience working with video streaming systems is a plus
Our Total Rewards:
At Formic, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported both professionally and personally. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits and perks package for full-time, U.S.-based team members, including:
- Equity in Formic: Participate in our stock option program and share in the success of a fast-growing start-up backed by leading global investors
- Competitive & Uncapped Commission Structure: Designed to reward performance and impact in commission-eligible roles
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield and Unum, with 99% of employee premiums covered and 75% coverage for dependents, with optional buy-up plans available
- Additional Insurance Benefits: FSA and DCFSA, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability through Unum, all 100% employer-paid
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Fully funded by Formic, offering support when you need it most
- Paid Parental Leave Program: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401(k): Invest in your future with our company-facilitated retirement savings plan
- Home Office Stipend: A one-time allowance for fully remote and hybrid employees to support an at-home or on-the-road work setup
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement: Monthly stipend toward personal phone and internet expenses
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need, when you need it, supported by our flexible PTO policy
Compensation Philosophy
Formic’s pay and equity packages are thoughtfully benchmarked against peer companies at a similar growth stage. Equity represents a meaningful part of our mutual investment: when Formic succeeds, so do you.
Final offers are customized based on experience, geographic location, market considerations, and a candidate’s preferred balance of cash and equity. Our goal is to attract and reward top talent who will have significant impact, and we are open to thoughtful discussions to align on the right structure.
What we look for:
We’re building this company from the ground up, and every person we hire has an outsized impact on our culture, performance, and trajectory. While each team member brings unique strengths and perspectives, we look for people who align with our Operating Principles and embody them in action. If this sounds like you, Formic may be the right place for you!
- Fearless Optimism: You make bold bets and default optimistic. You believe in the mission, aren’t paralyzed by risk, and fear inaction more than failure. You see ambiguity as opportunity and bring energy to building what doesn’t yet exist.
- Create the Magic: You absorb complexity so customers don’t have to. Whether your customer is external or internal, you focus on delivering experiences that are clear, fast, value-added, and outcome-driven. You don’t say “not my job.” You make things work.
- Today, Not Tomorrow: You have a bias to action. You close the loop. You take extreme ownership. You understand that speed compounds, and you don’t confuse activity with results.
- Seek Truth: You think from first principles. You value data over ego and strong opinions loosely held. You’re willing to challenge assumptions, including your own, in pursuit of the best answer.
- Made of Rubber: You are resolute and adaptable. When things break or priorities shift, you rebound stronger. You treat setbacks as learning moments and move forward with grit.
- One Formic: You operate without silos. You practice radical helpfulness, document clearly, and make clean handoffs. You assume positive intent and prioritize team success over individual credit.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Formic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to careers@formic.co.
AI Use:
At Formic, fairness and transparency are at the heart of our hiring process. We use AI-powered tools in some interviews to help our teams evaluate candidate responses, but all final hiring decisions are made by humans. You can learn more about how AI is used in our recruitment process by reviewing our AI Hiring Disclosure linked here.
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Full Stack Software Engineer - Robotics
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Who we are:
Formic is on a mission to reshape American manufacturing by making automation accessible to every factory. As labor constraints rise, costs increase, and global competition intensifies, automation is no longer optional for manufacturers that want to stay competitive.
We deliver automation through a Robotics-as-a-Service model that combines industrial robotics, proprietary software, and full-service support into a single, integrated solution. By removing the traditional barriers of cost, complexity, and risk, we enable manufacturers to deploy automation quickly and realize measurable gains in throughput, safety, and operational efficiency without large upfront capital investment.
Backed by leading investors including Lux Capital, Initialized Capital, Blackhorn Ventures, and Mitsubishi HC Capital North America, Formic is scaling rapidly and building the foundation for a new era of high-performance, Made in America production.
About the Engineering Team
As part of our Engineering team, you will help build and evolve the monitoring stack for industrial robotic systems. We are rethinking how these systems are designed, deployed, and maintained—and we’re looking for engineers who challenge the status quo.
Our work sits at the intersection of AI, modern robotics, and scalable software systems. We aim to make industrial robotics more intelligent, reliable, and easier to operate.
We are an AI-first development team, leveraging cutting-edge tools and practices to move quickly while maintaining strong safety and reliability standards in production environments.
What You’ll Do
As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you will:
- Design and develop backend infrastructure powering our robotics platform, including:
- System provisioning
- Data collection pipelines
- Monitoring and remote troubleshooting
- AI-driven fleet intelligence
- Collaborate closely with robotics engineers to design robust interfaces between hardware and software systems
- Build software across both edge and cloud environments to enable reliable data ingestion, processing, and system orchestration
- Provision and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS)
- Write unit and integration tests to ensure system reliability and maintainability
- Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to team planning and execution
What Makes You a Great Fit
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- 5+ years of experience in full stack software development using Python and modern frontend frameworks (React, React Native, or similar)
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems (IoT, robotics, automotive, or similar domains preferred)
- Hands-on experience developing AI-enabled applications or workflows
- Strong understanding of Linux systems
- Experience with AWS (AWS IoT experience is a plus)
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Datadog)
- Experience working with video streaming systems is a plus
Our Total Rewards:
At Formic, we believe people do their best work when they feel supported both professionally and personally. That’s why we offer a comprehensive benefits and perks package for full-time, U.S.-based team members, including:
- Equity in Formic: Participate in our stock option program and share in the success of a fast-growing start-up backed by leading global investors
- Competitive & Uncapped Commission Structure: Designed to reward performance and impact in commission-eligible roles
- Comprehensive Healthcare Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield and Unum, with 99% of employee premiums covered and 75% coverage for dependents, with optional buy-up plans available
- Additional Insurance Benefits: FSA and DCFSA, life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability through Unum, all 100% employer-paid
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP): Fully funded by Formic, offering support when you need it most
- Paid Parental Leave Program: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Company-sponsored 401(k): Invest in your future with our company-facilitated retirement savings plan
- Home Office Stipend: A one-time allowance for fully remote and hybrid employees to support an at-home or on-the-road work setup
- Monthly Cell Phone Reimbursement: Monthly stipend toward personal phone and internet expenses
- Flexible Time Off: Take the time you need, when you need it, supported by our flexible PTO policy
Compensation Philosophy
Formic’s pay and equity packages are thoughtfully benchmarked against peer companies at a similar growth stage. Equity represents a meaningful part of our mutual investment: when Formic succeeds, so do you.
Final offers are customized based on experience, geographic location, market considerations, and a candidate’s preferred balance of cash and equity. Our goal is to attract and reward top talent who will have significant impact, and we are open to thoughtful discussions to align on the right structure.
What we look for:
We’re building this company from the ground up, and every person we hire has an outsized impact on our culture, performance, and trajectory. While each team member brings unique strengths and perspectives, we look for people who align with our Operating Principles and embody them in action. If this sounds like you, Formic may be the right place for you!
- Fearless Optimism: You make bold bets and default optimistic. You believe in the mission, aren’t paralyzed by risk, and fear inaction more than failure. You see ambiguity as opportunity and bring energy to building what doesn’t yet exist.
- Create the Magic: You absorb complexity so customers don’t have to. Whether your customer is external or internal, you focus on delivering experiences that are clear, fast, value-added, and outcome-driven. You don’t say “not my job.” You make things work.
- Today, Not Tomorrow: You have a bias to action. You close the loop. You take extreme ownership. You understand that speed compounds, and you don’t confuse activity with results.
- Seek Truth: You think from first principles. You value data over ego and strong opinions loosely held. You’re willing to challenge assumptions, including your own, in pursuit of the best answer.
- Made of Rubber: You are resolute and adaptable. When things break or priorities shift, you rebound stronger. You treat setbacks as learning moments and move forward with grit.
- One Formic: You operate without silos. You practice radical helpfulness, document clearly, and make clean handoffs. You assume positive intent and prioritize team success over individual credit.
Equal Opportunity Employment:
Formic is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion or religious creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, family or parental status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. All employment decisions are based on a person’s merit, business needs, and role requirements. If you require further accommodations or have questions regarding accessibility of our roles, please reach out to careers@formic.co.
AI Use:
At Formic, fairness and transparency are at the heart of our hiring process. We use AI-powered tools in some interviews to help our teams evaluate candidate responses, but all final hiring decisions are made by humans. You can learn more about how AI is used in our recruitment process by reviewing our AI Hiring Disclosure linked here.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Formic