Software Engineer – AI-Driven Backend, End-to-End Ownership

Attention; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Equipment stipend

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Autonomy at work

Job summary

Attention is seeking a software engineer in New York to drive end-to-end design and implementation of product features. You will write clean, scalable Go code and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to turn specs into reality.

You’ll work with Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Redis, and Temporal workflows to ship reliable features. Bring autonomy, strong design fundamentals, and a passion for scalable systems in a fast-paced startup.

Qualifications

• 2+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer.
• Fluency in an AI-forward SDLC - using LLMs/agents to move fast without sacrificing production-grade quality.
• Experience with one or more of: Go (or comparable strongly-typed backend language); Distributed systems / infra & scaling; LLM harnesses / agentic systems; Concurrent or async processing.
• Strong fundamentals in software design principles (SOLID or equivalent).
• High degree of autonomy - able to tackle ambiguous problems and ship solutions with minimal hand-holding.
• Testing, monitoring, and reliability aren’t a separate step - they’re built into your coding.
• Comfortable owning a feature end-to-end, front-to-back, when needed.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end design and implementation of product requirements including task break-down, delivery, testing, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Consistently generate simple and elegant designs, and write high-quality code that can be easily understood and leveraged by others.
• Collaborate with product, design, and the rest of engineering to turn feature/product specs into reality.
• Influence the features and direction of the platform with your own ideas and identify opportunities to improve business processes.
• Run the full software development lifecycle - problem definition, design, development, testing, demoing and supporting production use of the features you own.
• Balance immediate business objectives against long-term architectural vision.

Skills

Go

Distributed systems

LLMs / agentic systems

Concurrent programming

SOLID principles

Autonomy

Testing & monitoring

End-to-end ownership

Tools

Postgres

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Redis

Temporal workflows

GraphQL

Job description

Attention is seeking a software engineer in New York to drive end-to-end design and implementation of product features. You will write clean, scalable Go code and collaborate with product, design, and engineering to turn specs into reality.

You’ll work with Go, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka, Redis, and Temporal workflows to ship reliable features. Bring autonomy, strong design fundamentals, and a passion for scalable systems in a fast-paced startup.