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# Software Engineer

- **Company:** MeritFirst Solutions LLC
- **Location:** Austin, TX, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Agents
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=9275ccbf6c54e5db

## About the Role

You may have been an early engineer, technical founder, or senior individual contributor. You may have built an ambitious product at a startup, owned a critical system at scale, made meaningful open-source contributions, or developed exceptional ability outside a conventional path.

Your exact background matters less than evidence of unusual technical ability, product judgment, and ownership.

You will likely thrive here if:

 * You have built and operated meaningful production software, not only prototypes or narrowly bounded features.
 * You have exceptional technical foundations and can reason from first principles when existing abstractions stop helping.
 * You can move fluidly between shaping the product, designing the system, writing the code, reading unfamiliar code, and understanding what happens in production.
 * You have depth in at least one part of the stack and enough range to follow important problems wherever they lead.
 * You are an excellent debugger. When something behaves unexpectedly, you form hypotheses, follow evidence, and keep going until you understand why.
 * You combine speed with judgment. You know when to build the simplest thing that works, when to invest in a foundation, and how to avoid both perfectionism and careless debt.
 * You have strong product instincts and care deeply about the person on the other side of the screen.
 * You have built production software both with and without AI assistance. You understand where these tools create extraordinary leverage and where they can conceal shallow reasoning, brittle code, or false confidence.
 * You treat AI-generated code like code written by someone you have never worked with: inspect it, test it, and take full responsibility for it.
 * You communicate clearly, disagree directly, and make technical tradeoffs legible to non-engineers.
 * You want your work to matter in the real world and care deeply about our mission.



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