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Full stack engineering and AI position

American IT Systems

Job Location:

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 26 June 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 23 September 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

full stack engineering and AI positions

Wayside

Salary $170K - $185K

Location ::Union Square New York City NY

Based in NYC; able to work in- office 4 days/week near Union Square

US work authorization required (no visa sponsorship)

Wayside is a pre-seed AI startup that 18xd revenue last year and is now hiring a hybrid Software Engineer in New York with a salary range of $170K to $185K.

This role aligns with your focus on full stack engineering and AI positions within the New York market. You will work directly with a team that recently raised $1.5M to automate HR and payroll operations for PEOs.

Ideal companies & backgrounds

Here are a list of companies Wayside likes to see candidates with past work experience from. You can also use these companies and adjacent companies as a place to start sourcing candidates.

(Rippling OR Justworks OR Gusto OR Paychex OR ADP OR Paylocity OR Paycom OR MITRE OR Deel) - PEO and HR/Payroll tech companies (domain expertise)

( Microsoft OR Google OR Amazon OR Meta OR Apple OR Stripe OR Databricks OR Cloudflare OR Datadog) - Big tech companies with strong engineering talent (social proof systems programming background)

Switchboard OR Poshmark OR Ramp OR Brex OR Mercury OR Vanta OR Retool OR Linear Technology OR Vercel OR Resend) - High-growth seed to Series B startups (early-stage experience product engineering mindset)

We are looking for a Software Engineer with 4 years of experience to join

Youll own large projects end-to-end-from design and requirements through to delivery building vertical-specific AI workflows that help PEOs scale without scaling headcount.

What will you be doing

Building and shipping vertical-specific AI workflows across client support payroll data entry and leave management
Taking large projects from start to finish independently-from design review and requirements to delivered feature
Defining technical patterns and architecture that will carry the product forward as the company scales
Contributing to product roadmap decisions and independently designing new features (25% product focus)
Engaging directly with customers to demo features collect feedback and deeply understand their needs

Seniority

4 - 7 years of experience in full- stack software engineering (backend- leaning)
Shipped production features end- to- end as a full- stack or backend- leaning engineer
Experience at early- stage startups (seed to Series A) in a high- ownership IC role
Experience building AI/LLM- powered product features deployed in production
Domain experience in PEO payroll or HR tech (e. g. Rippling Justworks Gusto Mitre)

Education