# Senior Engineer: Agent Academy at Focused Space

- Company: Focused Space
- What the company does: Backed by 500 Global.
- Company website: https://www.focused.space
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-29
- Apply by: 2026-11-23
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/focused/jobs/8008185003?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/focused-space-senior-engineer-agent-academy/

## About the role

At Focused, we move quickly to deliver quality software that achieves client outcomes and meets their customer's needs. We strategically partner with our clients to leverage our expertise in design and software, while our clients bring their own domain expertise. We work with a variety of clients from different industries, collaborating as we get new products to market, modernizing legacy systems, or helping teams learn the skills they need to be successful. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- You're a hands-on, full stack engineer with a strong track record of delivering software in collaborative, agile environments
- You're proficient in Python and/or JS/TypeScript (Ruby or similar works too) and have solid OOP and design fundamentals
- You understand async/await and the event loop as well as thread-based concurrency, and you know when to use which
- You believe that code quality matters, and that TDD and pairing help build better systems and stronger teams. You're comfortable with unit and integration tests, regression suites, and CI gates
- You know your REST fundamentals (HTTP verbs, status codes, CORS) and have modeled data with ORMs like SQLAlchemy, Django ORM, ActiveRecord, or Prisma
- You can jump into an existing React, Vue, or Svelte frontend and ship changes, with or without a coding agent

Tags: Engineering

Source: 1752vc Careers, https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/focused-space-senior-engineer-agent-academy/