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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Engineer - **Company:** Quad City Automotive Group, LLC - **Location:** Philadelphia, PA, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $141,000.0 - $176,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Boolean Algebra, Encodings, Databases, Data Integration, Data Mapping, Data Transformation, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), Software Debugging, Human Resources Information System (HRIS), Identity and Access Management, Next.js, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, GitHub Copilot, Large Language Models, Multi-Agent Systems, Usage Tracking, AWS Fargate, Front End Software Development, Virtual Agents, Functional Programming, Api Management - **Published:** August 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.workingnomads.com/job/go/1775199/ ## About the Role This is a co-founder-level engineering role working in a tight, single-threaded Pod alongside a Principal PM / Product Builder. You will have dedicated executive 'air cover' to bypass traditional corporate roadblocks, legal procurement delays, and enterprise architectural overhead. This role demands extreme ownership, a relentless bias for shipping over talking, and a knack for building 'sketchy V0s' that capture behavioral data rather than scale. If you want to spend months writing architecture design docs before typing a line of code, this isn't for you., * Full-Stack Prototyping Chops: You can spin up frontend interfaces, spin down databases, and configure API integrations completely on your own. You are a generalist who values functional software over specialization. * Agentic AI Mastery: You use modern AI development accelerators (e.g., Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) daily to build software at startup velocity. * 0-to-1 Hacking Experience: A proven track record of building apps, side projects, or early-stage software features from scratch. * Data Integration Agility: Experience working with disparate datasets, writing quick data transformation scripts, and setting up clean analytics events to track how users interact with prototypes. * Workflow Encoding Intuition: Ability to take real-world, friction-filled processes (like legal, compliance, or HR workflows) and rapidly translate them into elegant digital logic. * Extreme Ownership and Speed: You default to action, require zero supervision to deploy software, and possess a massive tolerance for ambiguity and changing requirements., * Early Startup Engineer: Experience working as a technical co-founder or an early engineering hire at an early-stage startup. * AI/LLM App Development: Hands-on experience building prototypes that leverage LLM orchestration libraries (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex, Vercel AI SDK) or custom agentic workflows. * Platform Deployment Agility: Proven ability to deploy, manage, and debug cloud-native prototypes autonomously using AWS services (e.g., ECS/Fargate, S3, Lambda or Bedrock) * Integration Experience: Practical knowledge of rapidly integrating with diverse enterprise APIs (e.g., HRIS, fintech, identity management, CLMs) with a particular focus on fast auth and data mapping. ## Description * Extreme Product Ownership: Drive the technical discovery, design, API contracts, and rapid discovery of net-new business concepts. * Ship Weekly Behavioral Probes: Collaborate with your PM counterpart to build and launch weekly 'sketchy V0s,' fake-door landing pages, and concierge MVPs designed strictly for speed of validated learning. * Be an Eng Hacker: Prioritize speed over perfect architecture. Write clean enough code to test a hypothesis, but remain entirely willing to completely scrap and rewrite your stack when a project is killed or pivoted. * Build the Scrappy Engine: Wire up fast integrations, stitch together APIs, configure authentication, and implement usage tracking and product-led analytics on the fly. * Leverage Frontier Tech: Serve as the technical expert on the team, translating emerging primitives-like LLMs, multi-agent frameworks, decentralized protocols, and automation tools-into functional software prototypes. * Participate in Discovery: Don't just sit in an IDE. 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