AI Developer

RocketRide Inc.

$150K — $180K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in developing distributed backend systems at scale.
  • Familiarity with agent frameworks, LLMs, AI tooling, vector databases, and ETL pipelines.
  • Experience with agentic AI tools that enhance productivity in development and operations.
  • Strong coding skills in Python and C++ with a focus on maintainability.
  • Experience in leading high-energy collaborative teams that deliver frequently.
  • Prior contributions to open-source projects and community engagement.
  • A passion for technical problem-solving through code and data.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and optimize features for an AI SaaS platform.
  • Utilize AI code-generation tools for rapid, high-quality development.
  • Lead and mentor a small, agile development team.
  • Contribute to open-source projects and grow the developer community.
  • Stay updated on generative AI advancements and apply them to product features.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure system support for developer adoption.

Benefits

  • Freedom to experiment and execute innovative ideas.
  • Resources to build solutions that enhance developer productivity.
  • Opportunity to drive impactful technical improvements.
  • Regular interaction and collaboration with founders and users.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do

  • Design, build, and optimize features for our AI runtime and compute-optimized SaaS platform, from prototype experiments to hardened production services.
  • Deliver rapidly with high quality, leaning on the latest agentic AI code-generation tools to move 10x faster without sacrificing reliability.
  • Recruit, lead, and mentor a small, high-performing development team that ships often, measures impact and iterates quickly.
  • Contribute meaningfully to our open-source projects and help grow our developer community through Discord, live events, demos, and technical content.
  • Stay on the cutting edge of generative AI (LLMs, agents, tools, retrieval, evaluation) and turn new capabilities into concrete product features and customer use cases.
  • Collaborate closely with engineering, finance, DevRel, and founders to ensure our systems support how real developers adopt and scale agentic AI in production.
What You Bring

  • 5+ years of experience developing distributed backend systems and services at scale.
  • Deep familiarity with agent frameworks, LLMs, AI tooling, vector/graph databases, and ETL pipelines in support of AI applications and business workflows.
  • Demonstrated leverage of agentic AI tooling to achieve step-change productivity in development and operations.
  • Strong, demonstrable coding skills in Python and C++, with clean abstractions and a bias toward maintainable, testable systems.
  • Experience building and leading collaborative, high-energy teams that deliver often and learn fast.
  • Prior experience contributing to open-source projects and engaging with developer communities.
  • A love of staying technical - solving problems with code and data, not slide decks.
  • You're able to work from our San Francisco office regularly at least 3 days/week, as part of our hybrid team.
Bonus Points

  • Clear communicator who can move comfortably between deep technical detail and executive-level or customer-facing conversations in the same afternoon.
  • Strong understanding of the challenges and approaches for working with unstructured data (text, code, logs, documents, etc.).
  • Hands-on with Langflow, n8n, or other low-code AI orchestration tools.
  • Practical knowledge of operating systems and common networking protocols.
Why This Role Matters

At our size and pace, every improvement you make moves the needle - technically and financially. You'll have the freedom to experiment, the resources to execute, and the chance to build solutions that set the standard for developer productivity and rapid AI pipeline development in the emerging world of agentic AI. If you want to drive the design and development of high-value features, work directly with founders and users, and see your ideas deploy quickly to production; this is your role.

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