Friendliai

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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