# Software Development Engineer (Fullstack)
**Company:** [AI Fund](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai-fund)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Salary:** $0K-$0K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, Node.js, FastAPI, Flask, Express.Js, Next.js, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2026-05-07
> Develops and owns architecture for scalable AI-powered fullstack applications, focusing on backend infrastructure, agentic coding practices, data pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration. Requires 5+ years experience with Python/Node.js, Docker/Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and distributed systems.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities

- Being a driving force for the team's agentic coding practice - establishing patterns for spec-driven development, context engineering, and multi-agent orchestration that compound team output.
- Owning and defining architecture for AI-powered applications and services, ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability across teams.
- Designing, developing, and deploying backend infrastructure and AI services with a focus on high availability, performance, and reliability.
- Leading cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Machine Learning Engineers, Product Managers, and other teams to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Driving innovation by making strategic technical decisions, setting best practices, and mentoring engineers to elevate the team’s technical bar.
- Improving developer experience by building internal tooling, streamlining workflows, and optimizing deployment pipelines.
- Ensuring seamless data flow, building high-throughput, secure, and scalable data pipelines to support AI model training and deployment.
- Championing best practices in software engineering, ensuring high-quality code, rigorous testing, and well-documented design decisions.

## Required Skills

- 5+ years of experience in software development, with a strong backend / full-stack engineering background.
- Fluency with agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Codex or equivalent). Experience writing effective specs, managing repo context, and reviewing/verifying agent output.
- Expertise in backend development, with proficiency in **Python** and/or **Node.js** and modern web frameworks like **FastAPI**, **Flask**, **Express.js**, **Next.js**.
- Strong software architecture skills, with experience designing and scaling distributed systems and cloud-based applications.
- Hands-on experience with **Docker** and **Kubernetes** for containerization and orchestration.
- Database expertise, including **SQL**, **NoSQL**, and data streaming solutions.
- Experience working with cloud platforms such as **AWS**, **GCP**, or **Azure**.
- Proficiency in software engineering best practices, including code reviews, unit testing, **CI/CD** pipelines, and system design.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team-wide technical direction.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical challenges into business impact.
- Proven track record of leading fullstack projects, from early prototypes to production systems.

## Nice to Have

- Familiarity with **Stripe**, subscription management.
- Exposure to computer vision, **LLMs**, or multimodal AI applications.
- Experience with developer-facing products and building intuitive APIs.
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