Software Development Engineer (Fullstack)
AI Fund · Mountain View, CA · 2 days ago
Engineering$190k–$220k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Being a driving force for the team's agentic coding practice - establishing patterns for spec-driven development, context engineering, and multi-agent orchestration that compound team output.
- Owning and defining architecture for AI-powered applications and services, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across teams.
- Designing, developing, and deploying backend infrastructure and AI services with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Driving innovation by making strategic technical decisions, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate the team’s technical bar.
- Improving developer experience by building internal tooling, streamlining workflows, and optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Ensuring seamless data flow, building high-throughput, secure, and scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and deployment.
- Championing best practices in software engineering, ensuring high-quality code, rigorous testing, and well-documented design decisions.
- Driving fullstack projects from early prototypes to production systems, with a proven track record of leading these efforts.
Required Skills
- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong backend / full-stack engineering background.
- Fluency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex or equivalent).
- Experience writing effective specs, managing repo context, and reviewing/verifying agent output.
- Expertise in backend development, with proficiency in Python and/or Node.js and modern web frameworks like FastAPI, Flask, Express.js, Next.js.
- Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and orchestration.
- Database expertise, including SQL, NoSQL, and data streaming solutions.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Proficiency in software engineering best practices, including code reviews, unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and system design.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team-wide technical direction.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact.
Nice to Have
- Familiarity with Stripe, subscription management.
- Exposure to computer vision, LLMs, or multimodal AI applications.
- Experience with developer-facing products and building intuitive APIs.
Pay
$190,000 - $220,000 a year
Benefits
- Stock Awards – We want you to share in our success with equity grants.
- Comprehensive Healthcare – Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.
- Wellness Stipend – Support for your health and well-being, whether it’s fitness programs or self-care.
- Lifelong Learning – An education stipend to help you grow and keep learning.