Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack – AI
Deepgram
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $220,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AWSDynamoDBGraphQLJavaScriptNext.jsNode.jsReactTypeScript
About the role
- Build, ship, and maintain backend services using Node.js, Socket.IO, AWS Amplify, and DynamoDB
- Work across the frontend with TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Design and integrate APIs using both REST and GraphQL, supporting flexible, scalable data access across services
- Design and evaluate prompt orchestration and memory strategies to ensure consistent, deterministic AI outputs.
- Design resilient fallbacks for AI‑driven workflows (e.g., when model responses are ambiguous, incomplete, or fail).
- Monitor and tune AI performance (latency, cost, accuracy) across different providers and model versions.
- Familiarity with MCP
- Develop deep expertise in a few areas while remaining comfortable diving into new parts of the codebase
- Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions, fostering a culture of clarity, curiosity, and shared ownership
- Translate high-level product requirements into parallelizable, incrementally releasable tasks
- Balance short-term deliverables with long-term investments in efficiency, scalability, and performance
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience on a full-stack engineering team, building and maintaining production-grade services
- Professional experience with TypeScript, including API development, backend service design, and system integration
- Experience building user interfaces through reusable, composable components—favoring clarity, encapsulation, and predictable state management.
- Proven ability to optimize database performance through thoughtful schema design, query tuning, and indexing strategies
- Strong communication skills and the ability to navigate technical tradeoffs in a collaborative, cross-functional environment
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- 10% Annual Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
Node.jsSocket.IOAWS AmplifyDynamoDBTypeScriptReactNext.jsRESTGraphQLdatabase performance optimization
Soft skills
strong communication skillscollaborativecross-functional teamworkclaritycuriosityshared ownershipability to navigate technical tradeoffs