Principal AI-Native Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with Product and Design teams to comprehend business requirements, user workflows, priorities, constraints, and acceptance criteria.

• Convert business requirements and designs into technical specifications, implementation strategies, system functionalities, and engineering tasks.

• Recognize ambiguities, dependencies, risks, edge cases, trade-offs, security issues, and operational challenges.

• Take ownership of product initiatives from technical design and implementation to deployment and ongoing operation.

• Oversee multiple products or significant engineering projects with minimal daily supervision.

• Design, develop, maintain, test, secure, monitor, and optimize software for production use.

• Utilize Claude Code as the primary development platform, managing multiple agents, sub-agents, worktrees, branches, and sessions concurrently.

• Establish AI-native development workflows, quality assurance gates, feedback mechanisms, and lifecycle automation.

• Review, test, critique, debug, and enhance agent-generated outputs.

• Automate tasks related to technical discovery, architecture, planning, development, testing, security analysis, code review, pull requests, infrastructure setup, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and maintenance.

• Collaborate across backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure, integrations, and internal tooling.

• Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure along with deployment workflows.

• Enhance legacy systems and continue to improve products post-launch.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience at the Staff, Principal, or equivalent engineering level.

• Over 8 years of professional experience in software development.

• Mastery of Claude Code is essential, with demonstrable product development experience.

• Proven experience in coordinating multiple AI agents or development sessions simultaneously.

• Hands-on experience in production environments with both dynamic-language and strongly typed ecosystems.

• Required experience with TypeScript/Node.js in production settings.

• Experience with Ruby on Rails is necessary.

• Required proficiency with MongoDB.

• Familiarity with relational databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL.

• Practical experience in deploying and managing production software in distributed cloud environments, specifically AWS, GCP, or both.

• Knowledge of service-oriented or microservice architectures.

• Hands-on experience with AI/ML in production, including LLM integration, retrieval or agentic systems, prompt/evaluation design, or edge inference.

• Extensive background in API development and integration with third-party APIs.

• Strong experience in automated CI/CD processes and software testing.

• Capability to translate business and product requirements into technical specifications and implementation strategies.

• Strong product judgment with the ability to identify edge cases and unmet requirements.

• Deep understanding of software design principles, architecture, security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

• Competence in critically reviewing AI-generated code.

• Ability to navigate unfamiliar programming languages, frameworks, and legacy systems.

• Strong sense of ownership, initiative, and a proactive approach to building.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Authorization to work in the US without current or future visa sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision plans (ButterflyMX covers 80% of the cost) starting from day one.

• 401(k) plan with a matching contribution.

• 10 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 5 sick days, and 3 floating holidays.

• Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost).

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost).

• Paid Family Leave.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Quarterly self-care stipends.

• Optional pre-tax flexible healthcare spending accounts (FSA and HSA).

• Dependent Care FSA.

• Commuter Benefits.

• Optional Supplemental Life, AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Legal, Accident, Critical Illness, Pet, and Personal Liability Insurance.

• Bonuses, equity, or other compensation forms, where applicable.