Member of Technical Staff

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Ownership: Engineering ownership of fireworks.ai from the user interface down to the API and data layer, with a strong focus on a delightful developer journey.
• Product-Led Growth: Participate in the team’s shared accountability for product-led growth through the web application, model playground, and seamless user onboarding workflows.
• Full Stack Development: Design, develop, and test responsive, performant web applications alongside robust, scalable backend services and APIs.
• Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor and support a team of full stack, frontend, and backend engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and ongoing technical coaching.
• Architectural Excellence: Define and implement full stack architectural standards, API design best practices, database schemas, and modern development workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Design, and Core AI/Infrastructure Engineering to align on requirements, system design, timelines, and delivery expectations.
• Systems & Components: Build and maintain reusable, scalable frontend component libraries while ensuring backend services are modular and easily integrated.
• Unified Developer Experience: Partner with other engineering teams to build an aligned developer journey across web, SDK, and CLI surfaces.
• Quality & Performance: Champion application performance, security, data integrity, and accessibility across the entire software stack.
• Innovation: Drive innovation by staying informed of emerging full stack trends, cloud-native technologies, and AI orchestration frameworks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 6+ years of professional experience in full stack software development.
• 2+ years of experience in a technical leadership role (e.g., tech lead, team lead, or engineering manager).
• Strong expertise in React, TypeScript, JavaScript, and Next.js.
• Strong expertise in building server-side applications, designing RESTful or GraphQL APIs, and working with modern backend languages (e.g., Node.js, Python, Go).
• Solid understanding of database systems (SQL/NoSQL), caching strategies, and data modeling.
• Proven track record of delivering and scaling production-grade, full stack web applications.
• Experience with modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or OCI), containerization (Docker), and full stack CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in AI/ML-focused environments, or interacting with LLM APIs, vector databases, and model orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Prior startup experience—especially as a technical founder or early engineer.
• Experience managing or mentoring other engineers, including providing performance feedback and supporting career development.
• Prior experience building developer platforms, SaaS dashboards, or complex interactive environments like playgrounds and sandboxes.
• Contributions to open-source projects, internal component libraries, or developer tools.