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Principal AI-Native Software Engineer

ButterflyMX · US Remote · Remote

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About ButterflyMX

ButterflyMX is your complete property access solution, providing a secure, convenient, and affordable way to manage and grant access on the go. Backed by Volition Capital.

About the role

We are looking for an exceptional Principal or Staff-level engineer who has fundamentally changed how they build software because of AI. This is not a traditional software engineering role with an AI assistant bolted on. We want someone who uses AI agents, especially Claude Code, to independently take well-defined product initiatives from business requirements to secure, tested, production-ready software.

What they're looking for

  • Significant experience operating at the Staff, Principal, or equivalent engineering level, with 8+ years of professional software development experience
  • A track record of independently delivering complex, production software in partnership with Product and Design teams
  • Expert-level experience with Claude Code. This is a mandatory requirement. You must be able to demonstrate substantial product development with Claude Code — not merely autocomplete, isolated code generation, or simple prompting
  • Experience coordinating multiple AI agents or development sessions in parallel, with a deep understanding of agent context, skills, sub-agents, tool use, planning, verification, and orchestration
  • Production experience with both a dynamic language ecosystem and a strongly-typed one. Production TypeScript/Node.js experience is required
  • Experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and document/NoSQL databases. MongoDB experience is required
More about this role

ButterflyMX is on a mission to empower people to open and manage doors & gates from a smartphone. Our products are installed in more than 20,000+ multifamily, commercial, gated communities, and student-housing properties worldwide, including properties developed, owned, and managed by the most trusted names in real estate. Our features are designed for developers, owners, property managers, and tenants and our products lower operating costs and improve tenant satisfaction.

Developers and owners no longer need to run building wiring or install in-unit hardware. Property managers can grant building access, revoke permissions, and review entry logs from an online dashboard. Residents can open doors from their smartphones, issue visitor access, and see who is trying to enter the building.

Fantastic people are the key to our success. As a distributed, primarily remote workforce, we’re looking for more intelligent, passionate, collaborative, ai-forward, and down-to-earth individuals to join our growing team. We’re driven by a shared commitment to excellence and innovation, grounded in our core values: We delight our customers, We take ownership, We are a community of collaborators, We...

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