Full Stack Software Engineer

LM Studio; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered team lunch

Expensed dinners in the office

Job summary

LM Studio is seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer to work across web platforms, API backend, SDK, and desktop app. You’ll build React interfaces, design APIs and data models, and ensure performance under real load.

You should have strong TypeScript/React fundamentals, production software experience, and a passion for AI and developer tools. The role includes competitive compensation and equity, with in-office meals.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production software across frontend and backend systems.
• Excellent TypeScript and React fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of APIs, SQL, relational databases, and data modeling.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP, HTTP, WebSockets, and streaming.
• Understands how systems scale and the tradeoffs involved in serverless and distributed environments.
• Able to investigate problems across the client, network, service, and database layers.
• Takes personal responsibility for the quality, reliability, and performance of their work.
• Deep interest in AI, developer tools, and open-weight models.

Responsibilities

• Build features across LM Studio's web platforms, API backend, SDK, and desktop app
• Design user experiences together with the services, data models, and protocols that support them
• Build systems that remain fast and reliable as usage grows
• Diagnose and fix problems wherever they occur in the stack
• Make technical decisions, explain the tradeoffs, and remain responsible for the result
• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Catered team lunch / expensed dinners in the office

Skills

Full stack

TypeScript

React

APIs

SQL

Relational DBs

Data modeling

TCP

HTTP

WebSockets

Streaming

Serverless

Distributed systems

Troubleshooting

Accountability

AI interest

Job description

LM Studio is used by millions of people around the world to run AI on their own computers, and now with Bionic - also in the cloud. Our values prioritize putting the human in the center, and creating tools that we want to use ourselves, and recommend to our friends and family.

As a team, we work with high technical intensity and personal responsibility. We are looking for curious, self-motivated, creative, and technically excellent teammates to join us and build the future of human-AI interactions in software.

The Role

We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer with broad experience and deep technical fundamentals. You will work across our web platforms, API backend, SDK, and desktop app. On a given project, you might build a React interface, design the API and data model behind it, debug network behavior between the app and a service, and determine how the system should operate under real load.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and operating production software across frontend and backend systems
• Excellent TypeScript and React fundamentals
• Strong understanding of APIs, SQL, relational databases, and data modeling
• Solid networking fundamentals, including TCP, HTTP, WebSockets, and streaming
• Understands how systems scale and the tradeoffs involved in serverless and distributed environments
• Able to investigate problems across the client, network, service, and database layers
• Takes personal responsibility for the quality, reliability, and performance of their work
• Deep interest in AI, developer tools, and open-weight models

Responsibilities

• Build features across LM Studio's web platforms, API backend, SDK, and desktop app
• Design user experiences together with the services, data models, and protocols that support them
• Build systems that remain fast and reliable as usage grows
• Diagnose and fix problems wherever they occur in the stack
• Make technical decisions, explain the tradeoffs, and remain responsible for the result
• Competitive salary and equity grants
• Catered team lunch / expensed dinners in the office