Senior Software Engineer

2 months ago

USA (city not specified)Senior

Base Salary

$150k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

Own problem framing, sequencing, tradeoffs, and system design with Product and Design.
Define data models, API contracts, failure modes, specifications, and implementation plans.
Direct AI agents in building software, tests, and first-pass reviews, while debugging and refining code as needed.
Design and validate unit, integration, and contract testing strategies.
Build security, reliability, and observability into systems from the beginning.
Review all work rigorously and remain accountable for production decisions and shipped software.
Own deployment decisions, on-call response, incident learning, and full software lifecycle operations.
Coach engineers on specifying, delegating, and validating work in AI-assisted development workflows.

5+ years of full-stack development experience.
Deep server-side experience with a modern language such as Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, or Go.
Experience owning services end to end and operating production systems at scale.
Experience with REST contracts, versioning, OAuth2/OIDC, schema design, and SQL under production load.
Production experience with asynchronous and event-driven systems such as Kafka, including idempotency and at-least-once delivery considerations.
Experience building and operating systems on AWS or Azure using containers, Kubernetes or serverless technologies, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience carrying on-call responsibilities and operating production systems.
Ability to define and defend testing strategies across unit, integration, and contract testing.
Experience with SLOs, incident leadership, OWASP, threat modeling, and PHI/HIPAA or comparable regulated data.
Demonstrated experience shipping and operating production systems using agentic AI as a primary development surface.
Preferred experience with LLM application engineering, including RAG, retrieval quality, evaluations, and LLM observability.
Preferred experience with modern TypeScript frontend development against a design system.

Full benefits package including paid time off, medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, an employee assistance program, and a wellness program.
The salary range is $150,000-$200,000 USD.

1,001-5,000 employees