Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer

Location
San Francisco
Workplace
On-site
Employment
Full-time
Compensation
$200k – $320k + equity
Visa
H-1B Transfer Only

About this role

We are looking for a Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to join as a core contributor building a production platform from the ground up at the intersection of process intelligence and agentic AI. You'll be an early engineering hire at a Lightspeed-backed seed-stage company that is already transforming operations for large enterprises.

We need someone who has made architectural decisions, lived with the consequences, and iterated — a builder who writes idiomatic Go, ships React frontends, and has hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production systems. You'll work directly with the founders and have significant technical decision-making authority in a young, clean codebase.

What we're looking for

Must-haves

  • 5+ years building production software, with experience shipping across the stack and sustained ownership of meaningful systems.
  • Strong backend engineering in a typed language: You have production experience in Go, C++, Java, Scala, or C and can design and operate reliable backend systems.
  • Python proficiency: You can build and maintain Python services, work with async patterns, and integrate with AI/ML tooling
  • PostgreSQL skills: Database schema design, migrations, and production operations
  • React and TypeScript: You can build and maintain a modern React frontend (hooks, context, component composition)
  • Hands-on LLM systems design: You have personally built and shipped systems leveraging LLM APIs and understand LLM development patterns (e.g., orchestration, tool calling)
  • Pragmatic mindset: You know when to refactor vs. ship, when to build vs. buy, and how to manage technical debt intentionally
  • Ownership mentality: You take end-to-end responsibility for features, from design through deployment and monitoring
  • Comfort with ambiguity: Early-stage startup means evolving requirements and shifting priorities

Strongly preferred

  • Customer-facing communication: Clear written and verbal communicator with users/customers
  • Vector search / embeddings: RAG patterns, hybrid search
  • AI-assisted development: You already use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar to accelerate your work
  • Testing discipline: Building test frameworks, establishing coverage standards, writing meaningful tests
  • Production operations: Observability, incident response, system reliability

Nice to have

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, GCP, container orchestration
  • Real-time systems: Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, streaming APIs

Our Tech stack

Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, React 19 + TypeScript, GCP, Terraform, Docker, Datadog, GitHub

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Culture & values

5-days-in-office culture in San Francisco

High ownership with architectural decision-making authority

Direct founder collaboration

Customer obsession with engineers expected to jump on calls with customers

AI-native development using AI-assisted tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex

Team values curiosity, pragmatism, and builder mentality

Young, clean codebase where early engineers set architectural patterns

High velocity operating style

Direct technical decision-making authority for early engineering contributors

Iterative development based on direct customer feedback

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