Software Engineer — Varick Agents

Location: San Francisco, CA (Onsite, 5 days/week)
Compensation: $175,000 – $225,000 base + equity
Experience Level: 1–4 years
Employment Type: Full-Time

Varick Agents builds enterprise AI agents for some of the largest companies in the world — working with $1B–$100B revenue enterprises with a reported 100% production deployment success rate. The team includes talent from Meta, AWS Bedrock, Citadel Securities, McKinsey, and Stanford.

This is a high-ownership engineering role building and deploying production AI agents into major enterprise environments. You will ship production code daily, own code quality and engineering standards, and progress toward leading a small engineering team within 6 months.

• Build production AI agents against audit specifications
• Deploy solutions into Salesforce, NetSuite, D365, and similar enterprise systems
• Ship production code daily
• Own code quality and engineering standards
• Take ownership across systems without waiting for direction
• Progress toward leading a small engineering team within 6 months

• 1–4 years of professional software engineering experience
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and production development experience
• AI-native builder experience with Claude, Codex, agent frameworks, or API loops
• Fast execution and strong ownership mentality
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Able to receive and implement feedback quickly
• Willing to work onsite in San Francisco 5 days/week

Strong signals include experience at Ramp, Cursor, xAI, or top AI-native startups, strong GitHub presence, open source contributions, agent infrastructure experience, LLM application development, and a systems-thinking mindset. Ideal roles: Product Engineer, Software Engineer, AI Engineer, Full Stack Engineer, Agent Infrastructure Engineer, LLM Applications Engineer, Startup Engineer, Founding Engineer, or Early-Stage Startup Builder.

• Vibe-coding-only backgrounds
• Candidates who cannot explain shipped projects
• Slow executors with weak engineering fundamentals
• Poor response to feedback
• Framework memorization without systems understanding

1. Pending approval
2. Initial screen
3. First round
4. Second round
5. Third round
6. Onsite
7. Offer

• Role is fully onsite in San Francisco — 5 days/week — please only apply if you can commit to this

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Varick Agents.