Job Title: AI-Native Staff Engineer
Location: Remote (U.S.)
Employment Type: Contract (W2 through ZipStaff — No C2C or 1099)
About the Opportunity:
ZipStaff is seeking an AI-Native Staff Engineer for a small, focused AI-native delivery team at a healthcare analytics and payment integrity organization.
You will use Claude, Copilot, or equivalent tools to generate large volumes of production-bound code across the stack, then own, review, and make that code production-ready. You will also guide a small team. This role is not focused on training AI models or building machine learning pipelines.
What You’ll Do:
- Build and enhance production-grade software using AI-assisted development workflows.
- Translate product and technical requirements into working, maintainable software.
- Use AI tools to accelerate coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, and documentation.
- Review, validate, and refine AI-generated code for correctness, performance, security, and maintainability.
- Design and implement clean APIs, services, and application components.
- Contribute to scalable backend systems and full-stack solutions.
- Orchestrate AI tools across code generation, test creation, debugging, and documentation.
- Collaborate with the AI-Native Tech Architect and the small AI-native team to deliver features end-to-end.
- Guide a small team and communicate technical tradeoffs clearly.
Required Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with recent hands-on production development.
- Daily use of AI-native tooling — Claude, GitHub Copilot, or equivalent — to generate, review, and refine production code.
- Strong Java experience building backend services and APIs.
- Database design experience with Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
- Ability to review and harden AI-generated code for security, performance, and maintainability.
- Experience spanning backend services, frontend components, APIs, workflows, and test code.
- Comfort guiding a small team while remaining hands-on.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience establishing or refining AI-assisted engineering standards.
- Healthcare, payment integrity, or regulated industry background.
- Full-stack delivery including frontend components.
Benefits:
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- 401(k) + 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Referral Program
About ZipStaff:
ZipStaff partners with leading organizations to connect skilled technology professionals with high-impact contract opportunities. We focus on quality matches, clear communication, and long-term success for candidates and clients.
To apply, submit your resume highlighting production software you built, AI tools you use daily (Claude, Copilot, or equivalent), and how you review and harden AI-generated code. Pure ML model training or data science experience without production software engineering will not be considered.