Software Engineer, Korrus Engineering (AI-First) - Contract
Korrus · Los Angeles, CA
$96,000–$114,000
Jul 16, 2026
Los Angeles, CA
Jul 20, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A contract full-stack software engineering role at a lighting technology company, focused on building internal tools and product-facing applications using AI-assisted and agentic development workflows. The work spans backends, APIs, SQL, and front-end interfaces, often starting from loosely defined problems. The role suits a generalist with strong Python and CS fundamentals who is comfortable with ambiguity and genuinely experienced using modern AI coding tools.
Junior level · Remote · Contract
Pay in the description: $8,000–$9,500
Posted 3 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 118,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 49,600–177,000
Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting explicitly welcomes early-career candidates ('recent graduates through approximately 3–4 years of experience'), and the title framing 'Early career welcome' aligns with a Junior band despite the high-ownership scope described.
No specific metro is given — the role is fully remote within the US, with Pacific timezone overlap preferred but not required.
APIs/backends are described as part of the expected work ('backends, APIs, SQL, and a clean interface') in the requirements narrative, so REST/APIs and SQL are treated as hard gates alongside Python.
'AI coding tools' (e.g. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, agentic AI workflows) is called out with firm language ('genuine fluency') in the requirements section and is treated as a hard gate, though no specific product is named.
Data pipelines, workflow automation, AWS, ERP/business systems, and mobile are all listed explicitly under 'Strong pluses' and are therefore preferred.
No degree is mentioned anywhere in the posting.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): workflow automation, mobile development.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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