[Remote] AI-First- Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ConsumerAffairs is a company focused on leveraging AI to improve system reliability and performance. They are seeking an AI-First Software Engineer who will design and maintain back-end systems, collaborate on feature implementation, and improve development systems through automation and verification processes.

Responsibilities

• Build and Maintain: Design, build, test, and maintain back-end systems and APIs to ensure scalability, reliability, and performance
• Collaborate: Work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to implement features and ensure seamless integration across the stack
• Write High-Quality Code: Deliver clean, efficient, and well-documented code that aligns with best practices and coding standards
• Database Management: Design and optimize database schemas, queries, and data storage solutions to support application performance
• Debug and Troubleshoot: Identify and resolve back-end issues promptly to maintain system reliability
• Code Reviews: Participate in peer code reviews, providing constructive feedback to ensure code quality and maintainability
• Improve the development system: Encode standards and patterns into reusable AI context. Build verification hooks that catch quality issues before human review

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 2-4 years of professional software development experience
• Proficiency in one or more back-end programming languages (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js, Go, Ruby) and one or more front-end programming languages (JavaScript — both vanilla ES6+ and React)
• Experience with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, or other API architectures
• Strong knowledge of database systems (e.g., SQL, NoSQL) and query optimization techniques
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Understanding of software development principles, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, and testing
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Experience with CSS — responsive layouts, design system tokens, component-scoped styles
• WordPress experience — custom themes, plugins, or REST API work
• Actively uses AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, etc.) as part of daily workflow — not occasionally, but as a default
• Can evaluate AI-generated output critically, catch hallucinations, and integrate suggestions with judgment
• Has used AI tools to accelerate code review, documentation, test generation, or debugging
• Comfortable prompting LLMs for architecture exploration, refactoring, and boilerplate reduction
• Strong understanding of software development fundamentals, including algorithms and data structures
• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
• Uses AI coding tools — Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or equivalent — as a default, not occasionally
• Has built and maintained living AI context files (CLAUDE.md or equivalent) for a real project
• Has designed automated verification workflows (hooks, test gates, CI checks) to reduce reliance on manual AI output review
• Can demonstrate a compound system: one where AI behavior improved over time due to deliberate system investment
• Has moved beyond using AI as a reviewer-assisted assistant (writing code, then checking every output manually) into building systems that verify themselves — where rules, hooks, and context files do the quality work so you do not have to
• Understands how agents can game tests, and has concrete strategies to detect or prevent it

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development

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