AI-Native Staff Engineer
ZipStaff•Blue Bell, PA
•Remote
About The Position
ZipStaff is seeking an AI-Native Staff Engineer for a small, focused AI-native delivery team at a healthcare analytics and payment integrity organization. This remote U.S. contract role involves using Claude, Copilot, or equivalent tools to generate production-bound code across the stack, then owning, reviewing, and preparing that code for production. The engineer will also guide a small team. The role is not focused on training AI models or building machine learning pipelines.
Requirements
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with recent hands-on production development.
- Daily use of AI-native tooling such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent to generate, review, and refine production code.
- Strong Java experience building backend services and APIs.
- Database design experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
- Ability to review and harden AI-generated code for security, performance, and maintainability.
- Experience spanning backend services, frontend components, APIs, workflows, and test code.
- Comfort guiding a small team while remaining hands-on.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Nice To Haves
- Experience establishing or refining AI-assisted engineering standards.
- Healthcare, payment integrity, or regulated industry background.
- Full-stack delivery including frontend components.
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance production-grade software using AI-assisted development workflows.
- Translate product and technical requirements into working, maintainable software.
- Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, and documentation.
- Review, validate, and refine AI-generated code for correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Design and implement clean APIs, services, and application components.
- Contribute to scalable backend systems and full-stack solutions.
- Orchestrate AI tools across code generation, test creation, debugging, and documentation.
- Collaborate with the AI-Native Tech Architect and the small AI-native team to deliver features end-to-end.
- Guide a small team and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Referral Program
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Career Level
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