Modern Software Developer
Explicitly not a vibe-coding role; focuses on integrating proven AI tools and LLMs into production SaaS rather than experimental live coding.
About the Role
Build and maintain production-grade SaaS applications that integrate AI capabilities to automate workflows and add business value. Focus on backend architecture, APIs, databases, and reliable, scalable systems while responsibly incorporating LLMs and AI APIs.
Job Description
Role
We are hiring a software developer to design, develop, and maintain scalable line-of-business SaaS applications that integrate AI capabilities. The role emphasizes production-ready backend systems, clean architecture, and pragmatic use of LLMs and AI APIs to drive meaningful product improvements.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services, APIs, and data models for SaaS products
- Ensure system performance, reliability, security, observability, and logging
- Integrate AI capabilities via LLMs and AI APIs to enable features such as workflow automation, summarization, data extraction, classification, and intelligent search
- Monitor usage, performance, and cost of AI-powered features and optimize accordingly
- Contribute to service-oriented or microservice architectures and optimize database performance
- Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate operational needs into software solutions
- Continuously refine, refactor, and iterate on product capabilities; ship incrementally and respond to real-world feedback
Requirements
- Strong experience building and maintaining production SaaS applications
- Solid backend development skills and experience with APIs and database integration
- Experience integrating third-party APIs, including AI/LLM services
- Experience crafting AI models and AI agents to accomplish real-world tasks
- Understanding of software architecture and system design, including scalability and observability
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and testable code
- Pragmatic mindset: apply AI where it creates business value
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving, solution-oriented environment
Preferred (not required)
- Experience with PHP or .Net development stacks
- Experience with MySQL or Oracle database engines
- Experience with microservice architecture
- Experience building or maintaining vertical SaaS or B2B products
- Experience working in small, high-ownership teams
Why this role
Work on real SaaS products used by businesses, take direct ownership of architecture and features, and thoughtfully apply AI technologies to improve product value and direction.