Senior Software Engineer - Scale Systems (Equity)

Brighterway; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Brighterway is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale production systems across frontend, backend, and ML-adjacent workflows. You will own data models, APIs, and deployment pipelines in a hands-on role with high ownership.

The role focuses on building production-grade frontend and backend components, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and collaboration with the founding team. Equity is offered.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong full-stack experience across frontend and backend in production environments.
• Strong backend experience (Python preferred).
• Experience building and maintaining React-based frontends (TypeScript preferred).
• Comfort designing APIs, data models, and asynchronous workflows.
• Experience operating systems at scale and handling production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain production frontend applications for data-heavy web interfaces.
• Build backend services and APIs (Python) and own data models and business logic.
• Work with ML-adjacent workflows, data pipelines, and inference orchestration.
• Collaborate with product and ops teams to ship pragmatic, usable features.
• Improve reliability, observability, and performance as volume scales.
• Provide ownership and mentorship to junior engineers.

Skills

Full-stack development

React

Python

APIs

Distributed systems

Cloud (GCP/AWS)

Tools

React

TypeScript

Python

REST APIs

Cloud platforms

Job description

Brighterway is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and scale production systems across frontend, backend, and ML-adjacent workflows. You will own data models, APIs, and deployment pipelines in a hands-on role with high ownership.

The role focuses on building production-grade frontend and backend components, with a strong emphasis on reliability, scalability, and collaboration with the founding team. Equity is offered.