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# Full Stack Engineer

- **Company:** Ambient Inc.
- **Location:** Redwood City, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Apache ActiveMQ, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Code Review, Relational Databases, Django Web Framework, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Object-Oriented Software Development, RabbitMQ, Redis, Cloud Services, Smart Devices, Data Streaming, TypeScript, Web Services, Google Cloud, Data Storage Technologies, ReactJS, Indexer, Backend, Information Technology, Apache Kafka, Graphql, Microservices
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/sr-software-engineer-full-stack-ambientai-company-8299379

## About the Role

* BS in Computer Science or equivalent field with a programming background
 * At least 4+ years of experience building scalable and available web services.
 * Strong experience working with at least one of the Object-oriented Programming Languages, like Python, Django, and React.js, would be required
 * Expertise in APIs (REST / GraphQL), general web backend design principles, relational databases (MySQL / Postgres), streaming pipelines, pub-sub systems, and indexing systems
 * Write clean and maintainable code
 * Design and implement complex systems including communication between several services (pub-sub paradigm, microservices architecture)
 * Manage service reliability, including any cloud operations work (AWS, Google Cloud)
 * Experience with Redis, Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, or similar tools/technologies will be highly preferred
 * Experience building SaaS product offerings will be a huge advantage.

## Description

We're looking for a Full Stack Engineer to help build and scale the core systems that power Ambient.ai's real-time AI security platform. In this role, you'll work on software that ingests, processes, and interprets massive volumes of video and event data in real time - transforming raw signals into actionable intelligence for some of the world's largest enterprises.

You can expect to regularly take on technically challenging problems in a fast-moving, collaborative environment and to see your work deployed in mission-critical customer environments.

What you'll do:

 * Build and maintain full stack features using React, TypeScript and Python
 * Partner with product and design to translate user needs into intuitive interfaces and high quality workflows
 * Create and maintain APIs and backend services. This includes working with data flows between edge devices, cloud services and client applications
 * Optimize performance across the stack with a focus on responsiveness, reliability and scalability
 * Contribute to architectural decisions including data storage, caching, service boundaries and partitioning
 * Review code, mentor other engineers and promote strong engineering practices
 * Work with cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling
 * Participate in planning, design reviews and cross-team collaboration


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