Principal AI-Native Software Engineer

🕒 August 17

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $215k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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ButterflyMX

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🔐 Security

🔧 Hardware

🏠 Real Estate

💰 Private Equity Round - ButterflyMX on 2025-01

Security • Hardware • Real Estate

ButterflyMX is a provider of integrated property access control and security solutions for multifamily, commercial, student housing, and gated communities. The company combines sleek hardware—video intercoms, security cameras, smart locks, keypads, vehicle access readers, and package room systems—with cloud-managed software so property owners, managers, residents, and visitors can control access via smartphones, automate operations, and integrate with existing proptech. ButterflyMX focuses on improving security, streamlining building operations, and enhancing resident experience across thousands of properties.

📋 Description

• Partner with Product and Design to understand business requirements, user workflows, priorities, constraints, and acceptance criteria • Translate business requirements and designs into technical requirements, implementation plans, system behaviors, and engineering tasks • Identify ambiguities, dependencies, risks, edge cases, tradeoffs, security concerns, and operational challenges • Own product initiatives end to end from technical design and implementation through deployment and ongoing operation • Manage several products or major engineering initiatives with limited day-to-day oversight • Design, build, maintain, test, secure, observe, and optimize production software • Use Claude Code as a primary development environment and orchestrate multiple agents, sub-agents, worktrees, branches, and sessions in parallel • Create AI-native development workflows, quality gates, feedback loops, and lifecycle automation • Review, test, critique, debug, and improve agent-generated work • Automate technical discovery, architecture, planning, development, testing, security analysis, code review, pull requests, infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, documentation, and maintenance • Work across backend, frontend, mobile, infrastructure, integrations, and internal tooling • Manage AWS and GCP infrastructure and deployment workflows • Improve legacy systems and continue enhancing products after launch

🎯 Requirements

• Significant Staff, Principal, or equivalent engineering experience • 8+ years of professional software development experience • Expert-level Claude Code experience; mandatory, with substantial product development demonstrated • Experience coordinating multiple AI agents or development sessions in parallel • Production experience with both dynamic-language and strongly typed ecosystems • Required production TypeScript/Node.js experience • Ruby on Rails experience • Required MongoDB experience • Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL • Hands-on experience deploying and operating production software in distributed cloud environments across AWS, GCP, or both • Experience with service-oriented or microservice architecture • Hands-on production AI/ML experience, including LLM integration, retrieval or agentic systems, prompt/evaluation design, or edge inference • Extensive API development and third-party API integration experience • Strong automated CI/CD and software testing experience • Ability to translate business and product requirements into technical requirements and implementation plans • Strong product judgment and ability to identify edge cases and unmet requirements • Strong understanding of software design, architecture, security, reliability, scalability, and maintainability • Ability to critically review AI-generated code • Ability to work across unfamiliar languages, frameworks, and legacy systems • Strong ownership, initiative, and bias toward building • Excellent written and verbal communication • Authorization to work in the US without current or future visa sponsorship

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental and Vision plans (ButterflyMX covers 80% of the cost) starting day 1 • 401(k) plan with a match • 10 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 5 sick days, 3 floating holidays • Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost) • Short and Long Term Disability (ButterflyMX covers 100% of the cost) • Paid Family Leave • Employee Assistance Program • Quarterly self-care stipends • Optional pre-tax flexible healthcare spending accounts (FSA and HSA) • Dependent Care FSA • Commuter Benefits • Optional Supplemental Life, AD&D, Hospital Indemnity, Legal, Accident, Critical Illness, Pet, and Personal Liability Insurance • Bonuses, equity, or other forms of compensation, where applicable