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

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

Location: San Francisco, CA | Full-time | In person

Compensation: $260,000–$290,000 + equity

THE ROLE

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.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN

- 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.

Requirements

REQUIRED TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

- Full-stack JavaScript/Next.js and Python application development.

- Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js/Typ