Friendliai
Software Engineer - Full Stack
San Francisco
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 117 days ago
TypeScriptPythonReactNext.jsFastAPIFull-Stack DevelopmentCode ReviewSQLPostgreSQLKubernetesCI/CDAPI DevelopmentGraphQLRESTgRPCLLMsAgentic AITest Automation
About the role
- The ideal candidate is a talented full-stack developer, strong collaborator, and someone who enjoys working across the stack, cares deeply about developer workflows, and is excited to help define the future of AI adoption.
- We power high-throughput, low-latency AI workloads for organizations worldwide and integrate directly with Hugging Face, giving developers instant access to over 500,000 open-source models.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain web applications and tools for AI model deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Develop clean, scalable, and robust APIs powering AI agents, workflows, and user-facing systems
- Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to integrate backend systems with deployment and orchestration pipelines
- Optimize the performance and usability of web interfaces
- Drive code quality through automated testing, CI/CD, and code reviews
- Contribute to architecture and design decisions that shape our platform's long-term direction
- FriendliAI is building the world's best AI inference platform that makes large language and multi-modal models fast, efficient, and deployable at scale.
- With our world-class inference engine, we are building a platform that the AI industry can actually rely on.
Requirements
- 5+ years of industry experience in full-stack or backend engineering
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
- Strong backend experience with FastAPI or similar Python frameworks
- Proven expertise in delivering production-scale full-stack applications
- Proficiency in designing data models, writing SQL, and working with PostgreSQL
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry tracing, metrics, and structured logging
- Knowledge of web security, authentication, RBAC, and multi-tenant SaaS systems
- Fluent in TypeScript and Python, Expert with React/Next.js
- Deep understanding of modern web frameworks and component-driven architecture
- Strong API design experience across gRPC/REST/GraphQL in production systems
- Solid foundation in cloud-native development
Nice to have
- Familiarity with LLM-based workflows, tool invocation, or agentic systems
- Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in production environments
- Have worked in a startup or fast-paced environments with ownership and ambiguity
- Built developer-facing SDKs/CLIs
- Passion for developer experience and enabling AI adoption
Compensation
- Competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Health check-up support and top-tier equipment/hardware support
- Competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits.
Company info
- We are a small, fast-moving team doing work that matters at one of the most exciting moments in the history of technology.
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