Senior AI-Native Full-Stack Engineer

Blank Metal; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Blank Metal, an AI-native engineering company, seeks a senior full-stack engineer to design scalable services and ship production AI systems for diverse clients. You’ll work across front-end (React/TypeScript) and back-end (Node/Go/JVM), delivering robust, well-tested solutions with real deployments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with UX/Product, AI/ML Practice, and ML Ops, plus mentoring junior engineers, CI/CD discipline, and raising the team’s technical bar.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of full-stack development experience.
• Experience designing and operating systems in AWS, GCP, or Azure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/CDK).
• Solid knowledge of security, performance tuning, and API versioning best practices.
• Comfortable in dynamic, client-facing environments—startup or consulting experience preferred.
• Strong communicator and collaborator with a passion for building high-impact solutions.
• Curious, adaptable, and energized by solving complex problems across industries.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable service and micro-service patterns, database schemas, and authentication flows.
• Ship production-grade code across front-end (React/TypeScript) and back-end (Node, Go, or JVM) with strong test coverage.
• Integrate model endpoints, manage real-time inference, and implement robust error-handling.
• Drive code-review rigor, CI/CD pipeline health, and observability instrumentation.
• Pair-program, lead brown-bag sessions, and mentor engineers on technical decisions.
• Collaborate with UX/Product, AI/ML Practice, and ML Ops teams to deliver client solutions.
• Contribute to engineering best practices and raise the team's technical bar.

Skills

Full-stack development

Front-end & back-end stacks

Cloud-native architectures

Security & performance

API versioning

Client-facing environments

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Terraform

CDK

Job description

Blank Metal, an AI-native engineering company, seeks a senior full-stack engineer to design scalable services and ship production AI systems for diverse clients. You’ll work across front-end (React/TypeScript) and back-end (Node/Go/JVM), delivering robust, well-tested solutions with real deployments.

The role emphasizes collaboration with UX/Product, AI/ML Practice, and ML Ops, plus mentoring junior engineers, CI/CD discipline, and raising the team’s technical bar.