Sr. Software Engineer

Who We Are

At Jonny Pops, our team is empowered to make an impact at work every day — from producing high-quality, innovative frozen novelties to spreading kindness one pop at a time. We look for bright, ambitious people who seek out challenges, thrive in fast‑paced, high‑growth environments, align with our core values, and get fulfillment from seeing their work transform the world around them.

Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Elk River, MN, Jonny Pops is the #1 frozen novelty brand in the Natural Channel and one of the fastest‑growing CPG brands in the country — growing 60%+ YTD in 2026. We manufacture in‑house at our SQF Certified facility, serve 13M+ students annually through food service, and operate a corporate office in Plymouth, MN. Technology is central to how we scale — and this role sits at the heart of that work.

Jonny Pops is making a dedicated commitment to building an AI‑Native business — sponsored directly by our co‑founders and executive team. We are standing up a small, in‑house, cross‑functional team purpose‑built to ideate, prototype, deploy, and sustain AI‑Native solutions across the company. This is not side‑of‑desk experimentation; it is a focused team with a company committed to innovation and growth that is equipped with a clear mandate to help reinvent the manufacturing CPG business model.

The Senior Software Engineer is a founding technical member of that team. You will not just write code — you will design how an AI‑Native company actually runs, building the agentic workflows, applications, and infrastructure that compound into durable productivity, yield, and capability advantages for the business. The time is now, and you will be one of the people who builds it.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, deploy, and sustain production‑grade agentic AI workflows and AI‑powered applications that change how Jonny Pops operates. You will work with an AI‑first development philosophy — using tools like Claude Code and the Anthropic API to plan, build, test, and ship at high velocity — and partner closely with Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, HR, and GTM to turn high‑friction processes into intelligent, automated solutions.

This is a high‑autonomy role for a self‑starter who wants their work to be visible, impactful, and genuinely central to the business.

• Direct Manager: Chief Financial Officer, who currently serves as Team Lead of the AI Initiative.
• Technical Leadership: Partners closely with the AI Initiative team on architecture, standards, and execution.
• Run‑the‑Business Systems: Coordinates with the Director of Information Technology (dotted line) on existing systems and infrastructure — the IT function owns run‑the‑business operations so this team can stay focused on the AI‑Native build.
• Cross‑Functional Partners: Finance & Accounting, HR & Office, Operations, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, GTM / Commercial.

• Plymouth, MN (corporate office) primary, with regular on‑site presence at the Elk River manufacturing facility as needed.
• Full‑time; standard business hours with flexibility for deployment and support windows.
• Based in the Minneapolis—St. Paul metro. Relocation may be considered for an exceptional candidate.

• Design, build, deploy, and sustain production‑grade agentic AI workflows that automate and augment core business processes across Finance, Operations, Manufacturing, HR, and GTM — moving solutions from prototype to reliable, monitored production.
• Own the full lifecycle of AI‑Native solutions: problem framing, architecture, build, testing, deployment, observability, and iteration.
• Establish the patterns that let agentic processes run reliably and, over time, around the clock.

• Stand up and maintain the company’s standardized AI development framework, infrastructure, and agile delivery pipeline as a founding contributor.
• Configure and maintain markdown project context files and MCP server integrations so AI tools have deep, accurate understanding of the…