AI-Driven Full Stack Engineer

HomeLight; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock options

Flexible work hours

Job summary

HomeLight is hiring an AI-native engineer in San Francisco to design and build scalable AI-powered product experiences. You will work across backend Rails services and frontend React applications, integrating LLM-driven features and semantic search into real-world workflows.

Join a fast-moving team focused on practical AI, system reliability, and shared success. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners and ship high-quality, measurable outcomes in a dynamic startup environment.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 2+ years of production experience with Ruby on Rails.
• 2+ years of experience with React.js or React Native.
• Hands-on experience integrating or building AI-powered features into business workflows.
• Experience designing, building, deploying, operating, and maintaining service-oriented architectures.
• Strong experience with relational and non-relational databases.
• Experience navigating ambiguous and complex project requirements with ownership and clarity.
• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (NewRelic, CloudWatch, Sentry).
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills.
• A product mindset with the ability to balance deterministic software systems and probabilistic AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers, PMs, designers and partners to build scalable AI-powered product experiences.
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services using Ruby on Rails.
• Build modern frontend applications using React.js (and React Native where applicable).
• Integrate AI-driven capabilities into business workflows (LLM-powered features, automation, semantic search).
• Architect systems mixing traditional SOA with AI components (model APIs, orchestration).
• Improve code quality via refactoring, testing and deployment automation.
• Use AI tools responsibly to maintain velocity and quality.
• Review code and provide feedback on performance, scalability, security, and maintainability.

Skills

AI integration

Ruby on Rails

React.js

React Native

System design

Observability

English communication

Ownership & clarity

Product mindset

AI ethics

Tools

Ruby on Rails

React.js

React Native

Docker

AWS

Elasticsearch

Vector databases

Job description

HomeLight is hiring an AI-native engineer in San Francisco to design and build scalable AI-powered product experiences. You will work across backend Rails services and frontend React applications, integrating LLM-driven features and semantic search into real-world workflows.

Join a fast-moving team focused on practical AI, system reliability, and shared success. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners and ship high-quality, measurable outcomes in a dynamic startup environment.