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Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Protingent • San Jose, CA, US
11 days ago
Salary
$60.00–$70.00 hourly
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Description:

  • We're looking for a junior software engineer who can help build production applications powered by agentic AI.
  • You'll work primarily in Python, designing and integrating APIs and shipping features that incorporate LLM capabilities into real software systems.


Job Qualifications:

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field — or equivalent practical experience
  • 0-2 years of software engineering experience; internships, co-ops, and substantial personal/open-source projects count
  • Solid Python fundamentals: writing clean, testable code, working with common tooling (git, virtual environments, debugging), and reading others' code
  • Experience building or integrating with REST APIs, e.g., experience in designing endpoints (FastAPI, Flask, Django), consuming third-party APIs, handling authentication, pagination, and/or error cases
  • Basic software engineering hygiene: version control, code review, writing tests, and working in a team workflow
  • Familiarity with agentic AI concepts — tool/function calling, prompt chaining, or agent loops — demonstrated through coursework, hackathons, personal projects, or work experience. Exposure to frameworks like LangGraph, LangChain, or similar is a strong plus
  • Some hands-on experience calling LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or open-source models) as part of a larger application Bonus
  • Exposure to databases (SQL or NoSQL), caching, or message queues
  • Experience with async/concurrent programming in Python
  • Familiarity with RAG concepts: embeddings, vector databases, retrieval pipelines


Job Details:

  • Job Type: Contract
  • Pay Range: $60-$70/hr.
  • Location: San Jose, CA (Onsite).


Benefits Package: Protingent offers competitive salaries, insurance plan options (HDHP plan or POS plan), education/certification reimbursement, pre-tax commuter benefits, Paid Time Off (PTO), and an administered 401k plan.

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