Our premier San Francisco-based AI Startup is hiring a Senior AI/Full-Stack Engineer to develop and build AI Agents to serve as the back office for restaurants and retailers. Our AI Agents will pull data across fragmented systems, reconcile it, make decisions, and take action – replacing hours of manual work across finance, marketing, and operations teams. This role directly will report to our CTO and co-founder, and helping shape the team, culture, and technical direction from the ground up.
Responsibilities:
- Full-Stack Development: Lead Design and implementation of scalable frontend architecture using modern web technologies. Translate UI/UX designs into responsive, accessible, and performant applications. Build and maintain backend systems and APIs to power core product functionality. Ensure smooth integration between frontend interfaces and backend services.
- Architecture & Best Practices: Contribute to high-level architecture decisions across the stack. Create scalable, maintainable systems with high code quality. Apply critical thinking to propose innovative solutions and continuously improve technical processes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration:Partner with product managers, designers, and engineers to define and prioritize roadmap features. Participate in customer-focused discussions to understand pain points and translate them into technical solutions. Mentor and guide team members, championing best practices and high engineering standards.
- AI Systems:Collaborate on AI-driven features, integrating models or intelligent workflows into platform components. Help design systems that support data pipelines, model inference, and AI feedback loops.
- Establish engineering best practices for code quality, testing, CI/CD, and monitoring.
- Collaborate directly with the founders and product leadership to align technical decisions with business goals.
- Provide technical mentorship to mid-level and junior engineers; drive a high-quality engineering culture through code review and example.
- Own projects end-to-end, from conception through deployment and iteration with customers.
Requirements:
- BS/MS in Computer Engineering, Computer Science of equivalent technical experience.
- 6+ years of professional experience building production-grade software.
- Solid backend experience — building services, APIs, and database integrations with Python, Django, or comparable stacks.
- Strong frontend expertise in React.js, including performance optimization and scalable component architecture.
- Demonstrated ability to work across frontend and backend contexts with clean, maintainable code.
- Experience with version control, deployment pipelines, and performance optimization.
- Passion for building end-to-end features that create measurable product impact.
Salary Range:
- $200K – $300K
- Startup Equity (Stock Options)
Relocation and Visa Requirements:
- Strongly prefer candidates that reside in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Will provide relocation assistance to the right candidate (that resides in the United States).
- Will transfer H1-B and TN Visas (that resides in the United States/Canada/Mexico).
- All candidates MUST reside in the United States.
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