Senior AI-Powered Full-Stack Engineer

Agave; San Francisco, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation bonus

Visa sponsorship

Equity

Healthcare

401k match

Performance bonuses

Meals program

Commute benefits

HQ visits

Job summary

Agave is hiring a senior full-stack/backend engineer in San Francisco to build AI-powered products atop our data platform. You will own major subsystems, shape team patterns, and guide multi-week initiatives from idea to production.

The role combines frontend and backend work across a modern stack, including TypeScript, React, Redis, and AWS. We value self-motivation, high ownership, and the ability to explain tradeoffs to founders and customers.

Qualifications

• Back-end/full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience.
• Designed and built new large-scale systems from scratch and owned them through years of production use.
• Deep experience with cloud infrastructure (e.g. AWS) and distributed systems in production: caching, queuing, and data consistency at scale.
• Has debugged hard production issues end-to-end: DB performance, memory, concurrency, third-party API failures.
• Comfortable across the full stack, and able to pick up unfamiliar or legacy systems (SQL, DLLs).
• Has lived through scaling pain: 100x traffic growth, migrations, incident postmortems.
• Has delivered large, ambiguous projects end-to-end, and can explain the tradeoffs to founders and customers, not just engineers.
• Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team. Excited to be our next hire; passion for building a world-class engineering culture.
• If in Bay Area: pumped to work in-person with us in SF 5 days/week. This role is remote optional for candidates outside the Bay Area.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of major subsystems — a new integration category, sync engine internals, our AI product infrastructure.
• Set the patterns the team builds on. Your abstractions become how we build; you influence through design docs, reviews, and tooling.
• Scope and de-risk multi-week projects yourself: identify the unknowns, prototype early, sequence the work.
• Make pragmatic build-vs-buy and tech-debt tradeoffs, and articulate the reasoning clearly.
• Raise the team's technical bar through design reviews, pairing, and mentoring the engineers we hire alongside you.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend engineering

AWS

Distributed systems

Data modeling

SQL

Tools

TypeScript

React

Redis

PostgreSQL

AWS CDK

EC2

Job description

Agave is hiring a senior full-stack/backend engineer in San Francisco to build AI-powered products atop our data platform. You will own major subsystems, shape team patterns, and guide multi-week initiatives from idea to production.

The role combines frontend and backend work across a modern stack, including TypeScript, React, Redis, and AWS. We value self-motivation, high ownership, and the ability to explain tradeoffs to founders and customers.