Senior/Staff Full Stack Engineer, Applied AI

The role

You will build and expand a suite of AI-driven products and infrastructure. This includes developing MCP tools, agent orchestration, and evaluation systems for the Via AI co-pilot.

What you will do

• Partner with Product Manager and Designer to define and prioritize the Applied AI roadmap
• Design and build MCP tooling to expose data and service layers
• Build and harden agent orchestration including tool-calling loops and multi-step workflows
• Improve reliability of non-deterministic systems through evals, tracing, and logging
• Focus on performance, latency, architecture, and clean code
• Collaborate with engineers to define end-to-end solutions across AI services, Django platform, and portal frontend
• Take features from 0 to 1, owning design, implementation, and delivery
• Establish patterns, primitives, and best practices for Applied AI

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in backend and frontend development
• 3+ years experience using React / Vue.js / Angular.io
• 3+ years experience with Python, using Django / Flask / Alternative
• Experience building stateful and event-driven web applications
• Experience testing web applications
• High API and distributed-systems design skills
• Strong fundamentals in relational databases and ORMs
• Genuine curiosity and drive to go deep on applied AI
• Ability to be a team player, with strong communication and collaboration skills
• An entrepreneurial mindset and comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience shipping LLM-powered features in production
• Familiarity with the modern agent stack (MCP, LLM provider SDKs, agent / eval frameworks)
• Experience designing evaluation and observability for non-deterministic AI systems
• Daily use of AI coding tools
• Experience with async task and streaming infrastructure (Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ, or similar)
• AWS experience
• Kubernetes experience

Benefits

• Unlimited vacation
• Health Insurance (including an option completely covered by Fora HQ)
• Dental & Vision Insurance
• Wellhub Memberships
• 401k plan with company match
• Commuter Benefits
• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Stock Options

Before you apply

• Authorization to work in the United States is required
• Fora is unable to sponsor or assist with U.S. work authorization

About the company

Fora is a modern travel agency empowering entrepreneurs to build travel advisory businesses. They use AI to modernize the travel industry and support a community of advisors.