# Software Engineer

**Company:** [Loop Returns](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/loop-returns)
**Location:** Columbus, OH, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Austin, TX, Los Angeles, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $125k – $165k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kubernetes, AWS, Serverless, CI/CD, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-06-24

> Full-stack Software Engineer building and maintaining web apps, APIs, and backend services. Must have 2-4+ years experience, use AI agents as default workflow, and demonstrate ownership of production outcomes.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain web applications, APIs, backend services, and lambdas for the Loop product line. Match the level of rigor to the stakes.
- Start with the agent, not the editor. Invest time in planning and intent articulation; the quality of your prompt is the quality of your output.
- Review AI-generated code with the same rigor you'd apply to any code. Plausible is not the same as correct.
- Include meaningful test coverage in every PR and contribute to a healthy CI/CD process.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, and designers. Own the outcome in ambiguity.
- Exhibit ownership: done means stable in merchant hands, not just merged. Flag risks early, make reversible decisions fast, and iterate.
- Make the system around you more effective, not just your own output. Raise the quality bar in code review, surface patterns in support tickets, flag cross-team dependencies early.

## Your Experience
- 2-4+ years building web applications, backend services, or APIs.
- Use AI agents as your default starting point and can describe your actual workflow: how you plan a task, prompt an agent, evaluate the output, and decide where to spend your review time.
- You've caught AI-generated code that looked right but wasn't. Treat it the same as code from any other source: own what ships, regardless of how it was generated.
- Have a point of view on where AI helps and where it gets engineers into trouble, and can speak to both from real experience.
- Experience with PHP/Laravel, AWS Serverless, or Vue.js is a strong plus, but not required.
- Care about well-tested, reliable software and have worked in agile, CI/CD environments.
- Operate with intensity and hold a high bar; give direct feedback, ask for help early, and respond to setbacks with ownership rather than withdrawal.
- Can share examples of learning from mistakes, asking for help, and growing through feedback.

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