Software Engineer - Platform / Applied AI (Full-Stack)

JeffreyM Consulting•San Francisco, CA

3h•$260,000 - $290,000•Onsite

About The Position

Our client is looking for a Software Engineer to join their team to own core platform and data infrastructure alongside the founding team. The work spans full-stack product surfaces, desktop data-capture workflows, high-throughput pipelines, and foundational architecture. The engineer will have direct founder access and substantial responsibility for decisions that shape the growing engineering team.

Requirements

Full-stack JavaScript/Next.js and Python application development.
Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and/or Go.
Serverless architecture and cloud functions for substantial data processing on AWS or GCP.
Distributed systems, scalability, system design, and clear reasoning about technical trade-offs.
Hands-on experience with Redis caching, Elasticsearch indexing, and Kafka, RabbitMQ, or comparable message queues.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, APIs, and NoSQL databases.
Evidence of personally getting ideas into production.

Nice To Haves

AI research, LLM evaluation, or human-in-the-loop systems.
AI agents or reinforcement-learning environments.
Founder or early engineering experience.

Responsibilities

Build and scale data-capture workflows across Next.js web applications and Python desktop systems.
Improve reliability, throughput, and performance under heavy production loads.
Architect data pipelines and make greenfield decisions about storage, caching, search, and message queues.
Establish engineering practices and scalable system patterns.
Work directly with the founders on product strategy and ship features quickly.
Take ideas from design through production and balance delivery speed with reliability.