# Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer

**Company:** [Fireworks AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fireworks-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $175k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Development, scalable services, ai models, APIs, Python, System Design
**Posted:** 2026-03-08

> Build and own scalable backend services for Fireworks AI platform, including web app, model orchestration, billing, accounts, and APIs. Requires 5+ years experience solving real problems and 2+ years with AI.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable backend services
- Own major product surfaces from architecture to production
- Improve reliability, performance, and developer experience
- Work directly with customers to understand pain points
- Ship enterprise-grade features without enterprise slowness
- Use AI tooling aggressively to automate tasks

## Requirements
- Comfortable collaborating with both humans and AI systems
- 5+ years of experience helping humans solve real problems
- 2+ years of working with AI — agents, bots, chats, or building on top of models

## Nice-to-Haves
- Enjoy driving initiatives across teams
- Think in terms of systems, tradeoffs, and business impact
- Care about developer experience and clean abstractions
- Curious about AI and want to build where the future is going
- Want ownership, not task lists

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity
- Ownership & Impact: your work directly shapes the future of AI
- Learn from world-class engineers and AI researchers

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