Company
Drawbridge
Annual salary
$180k – $280k/yr
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listed
58d ago
- Experience:
- 5 to 10 years
- Workplace:
- 5 days in-office in San Francisco
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
On-site in San Francisco, CA.
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What you need
- Must-haves
- 5+ years building production software, with experience shipping across the stack and sustained ownership of meaningful systems.
- Strong backend engineering in a typed language: You have production experience in Go, C++, Java, Scala, or C and can design and operate reliable backend systems.
- Python proficiency: You can build and maintain Python services, work with async patterns, and integrate with AI/ML tooling
- PostgreSQL skills: Database schema design, migrations, and production operations
- React and TypeScript: You can build and maintain a modern React frontend (hooks, context, component composition)
- Hands-on LLM systems design: You have personally built and shipped systems using LLM APIs and understand LLM development patterns (e.g., orchestration, tool calling)
- Pragmatic mindset: You know when to refactor vs. Ship, when to build vs. Buy, and how to manage technical debt intentionally
- Ownership mentality: You take end-to-end responsibility for features, from design through deployment and monitoring
- Comfort with ambiguity: Early-stage startup means evolving requirements and shifting priorities Strongly preferred
- Customer-facing communication: Clear written and verbal communicator with users/customers
- Vector search / embeddings: RAG patterns, hybrid search
- AI-assisted development: You already use tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar to accelerate your work
- Testing discipline: Building test frameworks, establishing coverage standards, writing meaningful tests
- Production operations: Observability, incident response, system reliability Nice to have
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, GCP, container orchestration
- Real-time systems: Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, streaming APIs
About this role
We are looking for a** Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience** to join as a core contributor building a production platform from the ground up at the intersection of process intelligence and agentic AI. You'll be an early engineering hire at a Lightspeed-backed seed-stage company that is already transforming operations for large enterprises.
We need someone who has made architectural decisions, lived with the consequences, and iterated, a builder who writes idiomatic Go, ships React frontends, and has hands-on experience integrating LLMs into production systems. You'll work directly with the founders and have significant technical decision-making authority in a young, clean codebase.
Our Tech stack
Go, Python, PostgreSQL, Redis/Valkey, React 19 + TypeScript, GCP, Terraform, Docker, Datadog, GitHub
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The listing gives the location as San Francisco, CA. 5 days in-office in San Francisco.
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