We found 27 available AI-First Software Engineers
AI-first engineers who treat agent output as a draft
An AI-first software engineer builds production software by directing coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and Codex, and reviews every change before it merges. An AI-first expert is a professional developer with high-level knowledge of security, architecture, cloud, and other essential development areas.
Our network skews senior, and that matters even more for agents. Once an agent can draft a feature in minutes, typing speed is no longer the constraint. The judgment of what the agent got wrong becomes the bottleneck. In the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, 66% of developers cited AI output that is "almost right, but not quite" as their top frustration with these tools. The engineer who catches the "almost" before your users do is the hire this page is about - and that is the quality we screen for whenever a profile claims agent experience.
Agent output is a draft until an engineer signs off
The failures in agent-written code are specific. An agent calls a library method that does not exist because a similar one did in another version. It writes tests that assert its own mock instead of the behaviour. It refactors files outside the task because they looked related. Over a long session, it drifts away from the architecture rules it followed an hour earlier. None of this shows up in a demo, and all of it shows up in production.
So we read an AI-first candidate's project history for the work around the agent: who wrote the task specs, who maintained the context files, who ran validation before a merge. A profile that talks only about generating code faster fits prototype work better, and for that we match clients with vibe coders.
What has our AI-first developers shipped for clients?
- Danylo S., a senior software engineer, joined a B2B2C drone inspection platform that needed modernization and faster delivery at the same time. He refactored Go services, owned a major Angular rewrite of the legacy frontend, and set up the team's AI-assisted development pipeline: agent instructions, task decomposition, context management, automated validation, and a review workflow that kept agent-driven changes reliable.
- Azay K. led backend architecture for a fintech payment and risk platform built around SEPA Direct Debit flows. Idempotent transaction processing, Redis locking, webhook verification, and chargeback reconciliation are the areas where an agent's plausible guess costs money. He worked with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot inside that discipline while mentoring three to five engineers on the team.
Which stacks do AI-first engineers on our bench work in?
They work across React, Next.js, and Angular on the frontend; Node.js with NestJS, Laravel, Python with FastAPI, .NET, and Go on the backend; and React Native for mobile. We match on stack first and agent fluency second because an agent amplifies what its engineer already knows: a strong Laravel developer using Claude Code ships more high-quality Laravel, while a weaker one ships more code to review. For the same reason, we care less about which agent a candidate prefers than how they configure it for a codebase they did not write.
Tell us your stack and the coding agents your team already uses, and we will shortlist engineers who have shipped production work with both. Once you approve a candidate, they can start within 2 days.
Projects our developers has been hired for AI-first work
Three engineers, three different uses of coding agents in client work.
Claude Code skills built for a team's stack
Ivan S. built custom Claude Code plugins and a project CLAUDE.md, adapted skills to specific languages and versions, and tuned prompt structures to cut hallucinated APIs, then packaged them for reuse across several teams.
Monorepo migration for a 1.5M-user platform
Mykhailo Y. moved legacy Angular and Ionic apps for an EdTech marketplace and 25+ white-label brands into an Nx monorepo, cutting PR volume by up to half and build time from about 20 to 10-14 minutes.
Access control redesign for enterprise FP&A
Oleksandra K. redesigned a core access-control system on a financial planning SaaS so new user roles took less effort to add, and built data-heavy Angular workflows with live updates over RxJS and WebSockets.
Pair Your AI-First Software Engineers
With Related Experts
Most AI-First projects require additional expertise. Whether you need front-end devs, DevOps specialists, or database architects, we connect you with professionals who integrate with your AI-First team.
What we look for in an AI-first engineer's track record
Listing Claude Code or Cursor on a profile tells us little. We look for evidence that the engineer owned the parts of the work an agent cannot: breaking a feature into tasks small enough to verify, writing the rules and context files the agent reads, and deciding what gets merged and what gets sent back.
The same candidates, after the AI tools experience evaluation, also go through our standard vetting for English, communication and a technical interview in their main stack, so agent fluency sits on top of engineering fundamentals rather than replacing them.
Your first week with an AI-first engineer
Start within 2 days of approving a candidate, and let the developer set up the agent for your codebase rather than a generic one.
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Share your stack and agents
Tell us the languages, frameworks and AI coding tools your team uses. We match on stack first and agent experience second.
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Interview and approve
Meet the shortlisted engineers, ask each to walk you through a change they shipped with an agent, and pick one. They can start within 2 days.
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Set up agent context
In the first days the engineer writes or updates the context files and rules your agents read, and agrees with your team which commands an agent may run.
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First reviewed pull requests
Agent-drafted changes arrive with tests they had to pass and a short note on what the engineer checked, so your reviewers see the reasoning behind the diff.
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