AI Developer

Valid8 Financial, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Valid8 Financial, Inc. is seeking a skilled developer to join their San Francisco team, focusing on building and optimizing features for an AI runtime and SaaS platform. The role requires over 5 years of experience in backend systems, proficiency in Python and C++, and a record of leading collaborative teams. You will contribute to open-source initiatives and help shape the future of developer productivity and AI workflows. The position offers a hybrid working model with a hands-on approach to AI development.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing distributed backend systems and services.
• Strong coding skills in Python and C++.
• Experience building and leading high-energy development teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize features for the AI runtime platform.
• Recruit, lead, and mentor a small, high-performing development team.
• Contribute meaningfully to open-source projects and grow the community.

Skills

Python

C++

Distributed backend systems

AI tooling

Agent frameworks

Tools

Graph databases

ETL pipelines

Low-code AI orchestration tools

Job description

RocketRideis an SF-basedAI startup pushing the boundaries ofopen sourceagentic workflows — helping developers build smarter systems that workfor them. Our platform connects automation, AI, andopencollaboration into something fast, flexible, and deeply useful.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and optimize features for our AI runtime and compute‑optimized SaaS platform, from prototype experiments to hardened production services.
• Deliver rapidly with high quality, leaning on the latest agentic AI code‑generation tools to move 10x faster without sacrificing reliability.
• Recruit, lead, and mentor a small, high‑performing development team that ships often, measures impact and iterates quickly.
• Contribute meaningfully to our open‑source projects and help grow our developer community through Discord, live events, demos, and technical content.
• Stay on the cutting edge of generative AI (LLMs, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation) and turn new capabilities into concrete product features and customer use cases.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, finance, DevRel, and founders to ensure our systems support how real developers adopt and scale agentic AI in production.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience developing distributed backend systems and services at scale.
• Deep familiarity with agent frameworks, LLMs, AI tooling, vector/graph databases, and ETL pipelines in support of AI applications and business workflows.
• Demonstrated leverage of agentic AI tooling to achieve step‑change productivity in development and operations.
• Strong, demonstrable coding skills in Python and C++, with clean abstractions and a bias toward maintainable, testable systems.
• Experience building and leading collaborative, high-energy teams that deliver often and learn fast.
• Prior experience contributing to open‑source projects and engaging with developer communities.
• A love of staying technical – solving problems with code and data, not slide decks.
• You’re able to work from our San Francisco office regularly at least 3 days/week, as part of our hybrid team.

Bonus Points

• Clear communicator who can move comfortably between deep technical detail and executive‑level or customer‑facing conversations in the same afternoon.
• Strong understanding of the challenges and approaches for working with unstructured data (text, code, logs, documents, etc.).
• Hands‑on with Langflow, n8n, or other low‑code AI orchestration tools.
• Practical knowledge of operating systems and common networking protocols.

Why This Role Matters

At our size and pace, every improvement you make moves the needle – technically and financially. You'll have the freedom to experiment, the resources to execute, and the chance to build solutions that set the standard for developer productivity and rapid AI pipeline development in the emerging world of agentic AI. If you want to drive the design and development of high-value features, work directly with founders and users, and see your ideas deploy quickly to production; this is your role.