Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Applied AI (Hybrid NYC)

Fora; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Health Insurance (including option)

Dental & Vision Insurance

Wellhub Memberships

401k plan with company match

Commuter Benefits

Supplemental Life Insurance

Stock Options

Job summary

Fora seeks a Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer in New York City to build AI-driven products and infrastructure. You will evaluate models and frameworks, ship LLM-enabled features, and work across APIs/SDKs that evolve frequently. You’ll own end-to-end solutions from design to delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Expect to help scale Fora’s Via co-pilot, collaborate across teams, and ship high-quality software with strong guardrails, testing, and observability. This is a hybrid NYC role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical exp.
• 5+ years backend and frontend development experience.
• 3+ years React / Vue.js / Angular.io experience.
• 3+ years Python with Django / Flask or similar.
• Experience building stateful web apps and testing.
• Strong API and distributed-systems fundamentals with ORMs.
• Curious, proactive, and able to work in ambiguity.
• Excellent teamwork and communication; entrepreneurial mindset.

Responsibilities

• Define and prioritize Fora's Applied AI roadmap with PM & Designer.
• Design and build MCP tooling and guardrails for data access.
• Build and harden agent orchestration with tool-calling loops.
• Improve reliability of non-deterministic systems via evals and tracing.
• Focus on performance, latency, architecture, and clean code.
• Collaborate across AI services, Django platform, and portal frontend.
• Take features from 0 to 1 from design to delivery.

Skills

Backend and frontend development

API design

Distributed systems design

Team collaboration

Entrepreneurial mindset

Ability to handle ambiguity

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

React

Vue.js

Angular.io

Django

Flask

Celery

Redis

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

Fora seeks a Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer in New York City to build AI-driven products and infrastructure. You will evaluate models and frameworks, ship LLM-enabled features, and work across APIs/SDKs that evolve frequently. You’ll own end-to-end solutions from design to delivery in a fast-moving environment.

Expect to help scale Fora’s Via co-pilot, collaborate across teams, and ship high-quality software with strong guardrails, testing, and observability. This is a hybrid NYC role.