Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer

Fable; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

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Health and dental coverage

Job summary

Fable is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep backend expertise to design, build, and scale AI-powered applications and agentic workflows. You will take ownership from idea to production, mentoring teammates and driving architectural decisions across the stack.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and SRE to deliver scalable, accessible software. The role emphasizes AI-driven development and rapid iteration in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/SE.
• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Extensive backend software engineering experience building scalable production systems.
• Strong full-stack development experience.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and distributed systems.
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred).
• Experience with modern databases, caching technologies, and messaging systems.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Experience working in Agile software development environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own technical solutions end-to-end, translating customer and business needs into scalable, production-ready software.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support software throughout its lifecycle.
• Take accountability for solution quality, maintainability, security, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Make sound architectural and implementation decisions with minimal oversight.
• Drive technical execution while balancing delivery speed with engineering quality.
• Proactively identify risks, remove blockers, and continuously improve engineering effectiveness.
• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Develop modern full-stack applications across backend and frontend technologies.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested, and secure code.
• Optimize application performance, scalability, observability, and reliability.
• Contribute to architecture, technical design, and platform evolution.
• Improve developer experience through automation, tooling, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Design and build AI-powered product capabilities that create measurable customer value.
• Develop AI agents, agentic workflows, and intelligent automation solutions.
• Integrate LLMs, AI services, and external APIs into production applications.
• Build prompt orchestration, tool-calling, and multi-agent workflows.
• Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval where appropriate.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and rapidly prototype new capabilities.
• Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity.
• Continuously identify opportunities to use AI to simplify engineering workflows and improve customer experiences.
• Partner closely with Product Managers and Designers to understand customer problems and business objectives.
• Translate customer needs into scalable, high-quality software solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Participate in technical discovery, solution design, estimation, and delivery planning.
• Build solutions that prioritize accessibility, usability, reliability, and customer outcomes.
• Champion engineering best practices including code quality, automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and secure software development.
• Participate in peer code reviews and architectural design reviews.
• Improve engineering standards through documentation, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in production support, incident response, root cause analysis, and operational improvements.
• Reduce technical debt while maintaining delivery momentum.
• Provide technical leadership across projects and initiatives.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
• Influence technical direction through collaboration and sound engineering judgment.
• Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Skills

TypeScript

JavaScript

Python

Java

C#

React

Node.js

REST APIs

GraphQL

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

MongoDB

PostgreSQL

Redis

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Event-driven

Serverless

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Fable is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep backend expertise to design, build, and scale AI-powered applications and agentic workflows. You will take ownership from idea to production, mentoring teammates and driving architectural decisions across the stack.

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will collaborate with Product, Design, QA, and SRE to deliver scalable, accessible software. The role emphasizes AI-driven development and rapid iteration in a fast-moving environment.