Software Engineer - Full Stack

About FriendliAI

FriendliAI is the fastest inference cloud for agents, built to run frontier open-weight models at scale in production. It delivers up to 7x faster output token speed, up to 90% lower inference costs, and 99.99% uptime across the most demanding agent workloads — long-context inference, real-time streaming, and accurate tool calling.

We are a small, fast-moving team doing work that matters at one of the most exciting moments in the history of technology. With our world-class inference stack, we are building the platform teams can actually rely on.

About the Role

We're seeking a Full-Stack Software Engineer to design, build, and scale our web platform, which serves as the core interface for deploying multimodal models, observing workloads, and building agent workflows. You'll own how customers experience the platform end-to-end- signing up, authenticating, managing access across an organization, and understanding what they're being billed for - from the services and data models through to the interface. In this role, you'll work closely with product, infrastructure, and design teams to create high-performance, developer-friendly, and enterprise-ready tools.

We are looking for a hands-on engineer who is eager to work across the surfaces of our application — authentication and access control, billing and usage, and the model deployment and inference features customers use every day. The ideal candidate has built backend systems where correctness matters, is comfortable carrying a feature all the way to the UI, cares deeply about developer workflows, and is excited to help define the future of AI adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain web applications and tools for AI model deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization

Own authentication, organization management, and billing end-to-end.

Develop clean, scalable, and robust APIs powering AI agents, workflows, and user-facing systems

Collaborate with infrastructure engineers to integrate backend systems with deployment and orchestration pipelines

Drive code quality through automated testing, CI/CD, and code reviews

Contribute to architecture and design decisions that shape our platform's long-term direction

Identify and resolve technical debt and improve system reliability in production systems

Qualifications

4+ years of industry experience in backend or full-stack engineering, with meaningful time spent on backend systems

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent

Production experience with authentication and authorization — SSO/OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC, API keys, and multi-tenant isolation

Experience building billing or usage-metering systems: usage-based or subscription pricing, entitlements, quotas, or payment integration

Fluent in Python and TypeScript; proficient with React/Next.js

Strong backend experience with FastAPI or similar Python frameworks

Proficiency in designing data models, writing SQL, and working with PostgreSQL; familiarity with OLAP systems such as ClickHouse

Strong API design experience across gRPC/REST/GraphQL in production systems

Solid foundation in cloud-native development

Familiarity with OpenTelemetry tracing, metrics, and structured logging

Preferred Experience

Experience with payment processors (e.g., Stripe) and usage-based or subscription SaaS billing

Familiarity with enterprise identity requirements — SAML, SCIM provisioning, or providers like Auth0/WorkOS

Familiarity with LLM-based workflows, tool invocation, or agentic systems

Familiarity with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deploying, scaling, and managing containerized applications in production environments

Have worked in a startup or fast-paced environment with ownership

Built developer-facing SDKs/CLIs

Passion for developer experience and enabling AI adoption

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Daily lunch and dinner provided; unlimited snacks and beverages

Supportive and highly collaborative work environment

Health check-up support and top-tier equipment/hardware support

A front-row seat to the generative AI infrastructure revolution

Competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits.