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# Software Engineer (AI Native)

- **Company:** Lightspeed Systems
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Software as a Service, Software Quality, Databases, Software Debugging, Enterprise Messaging Systems, NoSQL, SQL Databases, Google Cloud, Grafana, Git, AI Platforms, Apache Kafka, Restful APIs, Code Restructuring, Docker, Programming Languages, Microservices
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/4538f427-fae4-4738-b057-8b77c3023ff7

## About the Role

* 3-6 years of experience shipping production software
 * Experience building or contributing to cloud-based applications (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or similar)
 * Understanding of service-based or microservices architectures
 * Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs
 * Familiarity with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL)
 * Experience with Docker (or similar), CI/CD pipelines, and Git
 * Strong debugging and problem-solving skills

We are not optimizing for a specific programming language. We care more about your system understanding and engineering judgment.

AI Expectations

You don't need you to have built your own agent framework - but you should:

 * Actively use AI coding assistants in your day-to-day development
 * Be able to explain how you validate AI-generated outputs
 * Have experimented with running multiple agents or workflows in parallel
 * Understand when not to rely on AI
 * Be thoughtful about code quality, security, and edge cases

We're interested in how you think about leverage, not just how fast you type.

Bonus Points

 * Experience working on high-availability SaaS platforms
 * Familiarity with messaging systems (Kafka or similar)
 * Experience with infrastructure-as-code
 * Exposure to observability tools (monitoring, tracing, alerting)
 * Experience integrating AI services or APIs into applications

## Description

* Design and implement scalable services in a cloud environment
 * Contribute to architecture decisions with guidance from senior engineers
 * Build and maintain APIs and service integrations
 * Use AI agents to assist with coding, testing, refactoring, and debugging
 * Review and validate AI-generated code for correctness and maintainability
 * Improve performance, reliability, and observability of existing systems
 * Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into technical solutions
 * Continuously evaluate and improve your AI-assisted development workflow, We love our employees, and we show it. Our benefits and perks are built to support your overall wellbeing-at work and beyond. Offerings vary by country.


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