Senior Software Engineer (Applied Artificial Intelligence)

Traba; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in early-stage startup

Competitive salary

100% paid health, dental & vision

Dinner provided via DoorDash

One Medical Membership

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Commuter benefit

HSA via Optum

Mental health benefits: Talkspace, Teq

Wellhub Gym Membership

Job summary

Traba is seeking a senior full-stack engineer to drive AI-powered automation across the worker app, business app, ops platform, and marketplace. You will ship scalable frontend and backend systems, mentor engineers, and own core APIs and data pipelines.

You will integrate frontier models with existing agents to deliver reliable automation at scale, balancing product needs with operational excellence in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• Experience shipping AI features and integrating agents into products.
• Hands-on API design, UX, and deployment infrastructure.
• Shipping reliable automation, not just AI orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Apply existing agents and frontier models across the stack—worker app, business app, ops platform, marketplace—to automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment.
• Lead frontend and backend development, mentoring other engineers
• Architect and build core systems—real-time matching, autonomous vetting pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs
• Own product surfaces end to end, partnering closely with product and design

Skills

TypeScript

React/React Native

Node.js or Python

APIs

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Job description

• Apply existing agents and frontier models across the stack—worker app, business app, ops platform, marketplace—to automate vetting, matching, and fulfillment
• Lead frontend and backend development, mentoring other engineers
• Architect and build core systems—real-time matching, autonomous vetting pipelines, distributed systems, and APIs
• Own product surfaces end to end, partnering closely with product and design

Benefits

• Early stage start-up equity
• Competitive salary
• 100% paid health, dental & vision coverage
• Dinner Provided via DoorDash, free DashPass & stocked kitchen for NY employees
• One Medical Membership
• Flexible PTO
• Parental leave
• Commuter benefit
• HSA via Optum
• Mental health benefits: Talkspace, HealthAdvocate, Teledoc Health
• Wellhub (Gympass) Membership

Proven full-stack builder. You have a track record of shipping scalable, performant applications from frontend interfaces to backend distributed systemsVoracious learner. You move easily between API design, UX, and deployment infrastructureAn applier, not a researcher. You take frontier models and existing agents and wire them into real product across the stack—shipping reliable automation rather than owning the orchestration internals. And you don’t need every task to be an AI task: you take the highest-priority problem, model or notHands-on experience integrating LLMs or agents into real product—prompting, tool wiring, evals. You’ve shipped AI features, even if you didn’t build the platformA track record of shipping scalable products in fast, ambiguous, early-stage environments5+ years across frontend and backend: TypeScript, React/React Native, and Node.js or PythonStrong with APIs, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and messaging (Kafka or RabbitMQ)