Full-Stack Engineer: AI-Powered Streaming UI & Backend

Samba; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Samba is building an AI-powered product with a real-time, conversational interface in San Francisco. We seek a Full Stack Engineer to own features across the AI backend, Node service layer, and React streaming UI.

You will ensure state management, streaming, and persistence are robust while delivering interactive charts and documents. You will collaborate across product, design, and platform engineers, bring strong JavaScript/TypeScript expertise, and help ship in staged cohorts to live users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 4+ years of professional full stack / web application development.
• Strong in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node, with React experience.

Responsibilities

• Build across the whole system: AI/backend, service layer, and UI, with end-to-end ownership.
• Develop the backend and AI layer, handling streaming, state, and persistence.
• Extend the Node backend-for-frontend, build endpoints, streaming responses, and auth.
• Ship UI in React on a modern SSR framework with live token streams and interactive content.
• Handle long-running, asynchronous work: streaming state, loading transitions, reconnection.
• Write unit/integration/e2e tests and instrument deployments with logs and traces.
• Collaborate with product, design, and platform engineers; participate in code reviews and design discussions.
• Assist in staging launches and iterating based on live user feedback.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

REST

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Next.js

Remix

TanStack Start

Job description

Samba is building an AI-powered product with a real-time, conversational interface in San Francisco. We seek a Full Stack Engineer to own features across the AI backend, Node service layer, and React streaming UI.

You will ensure state management, streaming, and persistence are robust while delivering interactive charts and documents. You will collaborate across product, design, and platform engineers, bring strong JavaScript/TypeScript expertise, and help ship in staged cohorts to live users.