Senior Software Engineer

Vibehackers; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision insurance

Vanguard 403(b) with 3% employer match

Paid parental leave

Sick and safe PTO

Paid comp time

Annual learning budget

FSA and Dependent Care FSA

Life insurance (1x salary)

Pet insurance (Wishbone)

Job summary

Vibehackers is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead backend and generative AI content pipelines for a newly funded edtech product, building an AI workflow engine and resilient, scalable Python/TypeScript infrastructure.

As technical lead for agentic coding, prompt and context engineering, you will ship multiple substantial features per week and own system design, API boundaries, and durable execution across scale.

Qualifications

• Proven AI-native engineering experience with agentic/AI-assisted workflows.
• Expert prompt and context engineering; experience with Spec-Driven Development.
• Backend orchestration layers and agentic pipelines; graph-based concepts.
• Strong Python and TypeScript skills; scale-oriented design and performance.
• Durable execution for long-running tasks; versioned prompts and data.
• Ability to work autonomously in a small team and ship frequently.
• Familiarity with Claude Code and OpenAI Codex is expected; LangGraph desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of backend and AI content pipelines.
• Architect AI workflow engine and agentic orchestration.
• Ship multiple substantial features weekly and review peers' work.
• Own API boundaries, system design, and database performance.
• Maintain context layer and production artifacts like prompt chains.

Skills

Agentic Coding

Prompt Engineering

Context Engineering

Spec-Driven Development

System Design

Distributed Systems

Backend Development

API Design

Database Performance

Code Review

Autonomous Work

Tools

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

LangGraph

Job description

Explicitly requires vibe/agentic coding skills and AI-native workflows (prompt engineering, Spec-Driven Development, RALPH Loops) to rapidly ship features.

About the Role

Senior Software Engineer to lead development of backend and generative-AI content pipelines for a newly funded edtech product, building an AI workflow engine and resilient, scalable Python/TypeScript infrastructure. Act as technical lead for agentic coding, prompt and context engineering, and ship multiple substantial features per week.

Job Description

Role

Senior Software Engineer (full-time, salaried) to join a small, growing engineering team building new edtech products. The role is focused on back-end systems, generative AI content pipelines, and building an AI workflow engine and agentic orchestration to support teachers and students.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior individual contributor and technical lead, reporting to the Head of Engineering and collaborating with product leaders.
• Ship multiple substantial features per week using agentic coding workflows and AI-assisted development.
• Design and implement the AI workflow engine: graph-based agentic orchestration with nodes, conditional edges, interrupts, human-in-the-loop circuit breakers, durable execution, and long-running work that survives restarts and outages.
• Compose and steward agentic pipelines: write detailed prompts/specifications, orchestrator agents, dispatch agent teams, and engineer RALPH loops with completion guarantees.
• Architect resilient, high-scale backend systems across Python and TypeScript; own system design, API boundaries, and database performance to ensure availability and security.
• Maintain and extend the context layer (Agent Skills, AGENTS.md ) and produce living production artifacts such as versioned prompt chains and annotated datasets.
• Build evaluation harnesses and cross-provider benchmarks for cost, latency, and quality; implement durable execution and provider-agnostic model routing.
• Review teammates’ and contractors’ work, write PR comments and design docs, and raise the engineering bar through collaboration and code review.

Requirements

• Proven experience as an AI-native engineer using agentic/AI-assisted development workflows.
• Expert-level prompt engineering and context engineering skills; experience with Spec-Driven Development (e.g., GitHub Spec Kit).
• Experience building backend AI orchestration layers and agentic pipelines; familiarity with graph-based orchestration concepts (nodes, edges, interrupts, circuit breakers).
• Strong backend engineering skills in Python and TypeScript; systems design and API/database performance tuning for scale.
• Experience designing durable execution for long-running work, evaluation harnesses, structured outputs, and versioned prompt chains.
• Comfortable writing production-grade specifications, prompts, and Agent Skills; able to operate autonomously in a small team and ship frequently.
• Familiarity with Claude Code and/or OpenAI Codex is expected; familiarity with LangGraph or equivalent orchestration tooling is desirable.

Preferred / Helpful

• Experience building edtech products and handling sensitive education data (COPPA, CIPA, FERPA, PPRA, SOC 2).
• Experience with annotated datasets, cross-provider benchmarking, and cost/latency/quality trade-offs.
• Salary: $160,000 - $190,000 per year (salaried)
• Employer-sponsored health insurance (CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield)
• Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance (MetLife)
• Participation in Vanguard 403(b) with 3% employer match
• Paid Time Off (vacation/PTO 20 days), paid holidays, paid parental leave, sick/safe leave, "Me Days", and ability to earn paid comp time
• Annual continuous learning budget (available after 6 months)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x salary company-paid life insurance
• Wishbone pet insurance benefit
• Ability to work remotely and set your own hours (within reason)

Location & Work Type

• Remote, USA-based; full-time, salaried. Start date: ASAP.

Skills

Agentic Coding Prompt Engineering Context Engineering Spec-Driven Development System Design Distributed Systems Backend Development API Design Database Performance Architecture Evaluation & Benchmarking Collaboration and Code Review Autonomous / Self-directed Work

Experience Level

Senior

USD 160,000 - 190,000/year

Employment Type

Full-time

• Employer-sponsored health insurance (CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield)
• Employer-sponsored dental and vision insurance (MetLife)
• Vanguard 403(b) with 3% employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Sick and safe paid time off
• Ability to earn paid comp time
• Annual continuous learning budget (after 6 months)
• FSA and Dependent Care FSA access
• 1x salary company-paid life insurance
• Wishbone pet insurance benefit
• Ability to work remotely and set your own hours