About the Role
Miyagami places the top 1% of AI-native engineering talent with international clients building real-time, AI-powered products. Our hiring process is built to find that top 1%, so every engineer at Miyagami is genuinely the best of the best, not just someone who interviewed well.
We're hiring an AI-Native Engineer with strong Node.js and React fundamentals to build scalable, real-time applications and AI-powered products. This is a backend-heavy role. Most of the work is in API design, data flow, and the logic that's easy to get subtly wrong.
This role is for someone who uses AI to improve how they design, build, debug, and ship software rather than someone who hands the thinking over to it. You'll work alongside international clients and teams, so clear English and real ownership matter as much as the code.
What You'll Do
Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Node.js/TypeScript: schema design, data flow, and the edge cases that are hard to get right
Work across React on the frontend where needed, with most of your time on the backend
Take real tickets in a live codebase and own them end to end
Use AI orchestration as part of how you build, not as a shortcut around understanding the problem
Communicate clearly with the team about what you're building and why
What you bring
What We're Looking For
6+ years of professional experience, hands-on, writing production code
Very strong coding fundamentals and a real understanding of complex systems, not just familiarity with a framework
Strong hands-on Node.js, React, JavaScript/TypeScript, with real backend depth
Debugging that's methodical: root-cause work, rather than trial-and-error patching
Reads and reasons about code you didn't write, fluently, on sight
Genuinely strong with LLM applications, spec-driven development (SDD), worktrees for parallel agent workflows, and sub-agents, not just familiar with the concepts. This is required, not a bonus
Knows when not to use the tool, and hand-codes the tricky edge case instead of re-prompting five times
Fluent English, comfortable in a fast-moving, English-speaking work environment
Clear communication under pressure: narrates tradeoffs and flags what didn't get done
Nice to Have
Event-driven or distributed systems experience
WebRTC or other real-time communication tech
Prior experience with international clients or software agencies
Experience designing systems that had to evolve at scale
What we offer
What You'll Get
Work on modern AI-native and real-time products
Direct collaboration with international clients
High level of ownership and autonomy
Opportunity to work with the best engineers and modern technologies
A collaborative environment where initiative, clear communication, and practical problem-solving are highly valued
