Software Engineer - Full Stack

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Title of Role: Software Engineer – Full Stack

Location: San Francisco, CA (Hybrid, 4 days/week onsite)

Company Stage of Funding: Seed (~$7–8M raised)

Office Type: Hybrid

Salary: $175,000 – $250,000 + Competitive Equity

Visa: No visa sponsorship (transfers may be considered for exceptional candidates)

Company Description

Our client is building critical infrastructure for the next generation of AI agents — enabling developers to deploy agents that write code, browse the web, and interact with computers autonomously in production environments.

Founded by former top-tier infrastructure engineers, the company is rapidly scaling as demand grows for production-grade infrastructure powering agentic systems.

This is an opportunity to join an elite engineering team building foundational infrastructure for the emerging agentic web.

What You Will Do

Own backend-heavy full-stack systems powering AI infrastructure products

Lead evolution of billing and usage tracking systems

Build and integrate payments infrastructure using modern billing APIs

Drive cloud marketplace integrations across major cloud providers

Design and ship developer-facing APIs and workflows

Build highly scalable containerized infrastructure systems

Work deeply with Docker, orchestration systems, and distributed infrastructure

Partner across product and engineering to shape platform direction

Improve authentication, access control, and developer platform workflows

Contribute to system scalability, reliability, and developer experience

Help define engineering patterns across a rapidly scaling platform

Build foundational infrastructure powering production AI agents

Ideal Candidate Background

4–7 years of software engineering experience

Strong experience in full-stack or backend-heavy engineering roles

Experience at high-growth startups or strong product engineering companies

Hands-on builder mentality

Strong TypeScript proficiency

Strong Docker/containerization experience

Experience with billing / payments systems preferred

Experience building APIs or developer-facing products

Strong systems reasoning ability

Comfort working in fast-paced, ambiguous startup environments

Preferred / Strong Signals

Experience with Stripe or modern payments infrastructure

Experience building developer tooling platforms

Background in infrastructure-heavy product engineering

Experience with Kubernetes or distributed systems

Authentication / identity systems experience

Experience scaling usage-based billing systems

Prior startup experience from Series B–D companies

Experience shipping production AI-adjacent systems

Compensation and Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 – $250,000

Competitive early-stage equity

Hybrid role (4 days onsite in SF)

High ownership engineering environment

Direct access to senior engineering leadership

Opportunity to shape foundational AI infrastructure

Fast-moving product and engineering culture

Why Join

This is a chance to help define the infrastructure layer powering AI agents in production.

You’ll work on technically difficult systems at the frontier of AI infrastructure, solving real scaling challenges for the next generation of autonomous software systems.

If you want to build foundational systems for the agentic web inside a high-caliber engineering team, this role offers exceptional ownership and technical depth.