iSpot
Software Development Engineer 2
Bellevue, WA
Work authorization requiredDetected 6 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaCode ReviewGitMySQLAWSDockerCI/CDDevOpsRESTData EngineeringLLMsCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Most importantly, we provide a really interesting working experience, and the chance to contribute to the success of something great.
- This is a strong fit for engineers who want real ownership, work alongside AI specialists and senior engineers solving novel problems, and operate in an environment where AI is a genuine teammate in the development loop.
- AI-Driven Productivity & Efficiency • AI-First Workflow: You independently use AI tools (e.g., Kiro, Copilot, Gemini, Cursor) to improve the speed and quality of your work.
Responsibilities
- Feature Ownership: You own features end-to-end-design, build, ship, and iterate on AI-driven capabilities across data pipelines, APIs, and agent workflows, from technical design through production rollout.
- Scoped Technical Decisions: You choose the right tradeoffs on services and components you own. You bring proposals and prototypes to design discussions rather than waiting for direction.
- Testing & Quality: You author and own the testing plan for your features, considering product requirements and edge cases. You perform unit, component, integration, and E2E testing and can differentiate between application bugs and environment issues.
- Production Reliability: You monitor performance, scalability, and cost of the services you build. You respond when things break and participate in the on-call rotation.
- Independence: You complete most assignments independently with little to no supervision, knowing exactly when and how to escalate issues to your manager or senior leads.
- Team Contribution: You help onboard and train new team members and are proactive in building trust through excellent follow-through and integrity.
- You own features end-to-end-design, build, ship, and iterate on AI-driven capabilities across data pipelines, APIs, and agent workflows, from technical design through production rollout.
- You author and own the testing plan for your features, considering product requirements and edge cases.
- You perform unit, component, integration, and E2E testing and can differentiate between application bugs and environment issues.
- You monitor performance, scalability, and cost of the services you build.
Requirements
- Technical Proficiency: Strong programming depth in at least one of Java, Python, TypeScript, or Go-and comfort picking up another quickly.
- Demonstrated Ownership: A track record of owning non-trivial features or services in a production environment, including the operational side.
- Tech Required: Java, MySQL, Git, CI/CD pipelines, REST API design.
- AI Native: Demonstrated ability to use LLMs and AI coding assistants to accelerate your development lifecycle.
- You work cleanly across engineering, product, and data science.
- Demonstrated ability to use LLMs and AI coding assistants to accelerate your development lifecycle.
- Coding & Debugging: You are competent in programming and debugging across multiple components and environments.
- Team Uplift: You help the team get better at working with AI-share patterns that work, flag the ones that don't, and identify enhancements that automate repetitive tasks so you can focus on solving complex problems.
- Cloud Foundation: Solid understanding of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2) and containerization (Docker).
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Skills
- This includes using AI for code understanding, self-code reviews, and ramping up quickly in new domains or languages.
- Collaboration & Growth
- Solid understanding of AWS (S3, Lambda, EC2) and containerization (Docker).
Compensation
- Our compensation packages consist of salary and equity in one of Seattle's hottest start-ups, as well as other standard benefits.
Benefits
- Rapid Iteration: You move fast on prototypes-taking MVPs from idea to validated learning quickly-and know when to harden versus when to throw away.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. iSpot is not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position at this time.
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