Software Developer, AI

Job Description

Join the team transforming 150+ software companies with AI

ABOUT VALSOFT:

Valsoft is a global firm that acquires and grows mission-critical vertical market software companies. Since 2015, we have built a portfolio of 150+ companies across 30+ industries, comprising 4,000+ employees in over 20 countries.

We're building the infrastructure, tools, and talent to make every business in our portfolio AI-native. We're hiring across 150+ vertical market software businesses in the Valsoft portfolio. The right candidate will be matched to a specific business where they can have an outsized impact from day one and an opportunity to work across multiple businesses over time.

THE OPPORTUNITY:

Engineers at Valsoft go where the hardest problems are. You will embed directly inside a portfolio company, working alongside operators, product teams, and customers to solve complex, messy, high-stakes challenges that cannot be fixed from a distance.

As an AI Software Developer, you will be the person who builds what the business actually needs. New product features, AI-powered tooling, integrations, internal systems. If it should exist and does not yet, that is your problem to solve. We believe great developers can work in any language and any environment. You are not here to maintain. You are here to build and ship.

What you will do

• Embed inside portfolio companies to understand the product, the codebase, and the gaps, then build solutions that move the business forward.
• Design and develop AI-powered features, integrations, and internal tools across whatever stack the business runs on.
• Work directly with product and operations teams to translate business problems into clean technical solutions.
• Own the full delivery cycle: scoping, building, shipping, measuring, and iterating.
• Identify where AI creates real product leverage and build toward it, not as a novelty, but as a capability.
• Operate across multiple portfolio companies over time, building expertise in what actually works.

What you bring

• Strong software development fundamentals. You write clean, production-quality code and can pick up any language or stack.
• Hands-on experience building with AI. You have shipped real features using LLMs, agents, or AI tooling, not just prototyped them.
• Strong problem-framing skills. You understand the business need before you touch the keyboard.
• High comfort with ambiguity. You can operate when requirements are incomplete and figure out what actually needs to be built.
• Strong communicator. You can translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders and earn their trust.
• Self-starter who moves fast and leaves codebases better than you found them.

 What success looks like

• Within 30 days: You understand the product, the codebase, and the highest-leverage opportunities, and you have a clear build roadmap.
• Within 90 days: At least two meaningful features or tools are live and driving real outcomes.
• Within 6 months: You are a trusted technical resource with a track record of shipped solutions across the portfolio.
• Long-term: You have raised the technical bar at every business you have touched, and you have the shipped product to prove it.

Is This Role Right for You?

This role is for developers who genuinely love building software. You probably have side projects you are excited about, opinions on your tooling, and a habit of diving deep into problems because they are interesting, not just because they are assigned. You want to be close to the product, ship constantly, and have real ownership over what you build.

You are joining a company that moves fast with modern tooling. We expect you to show up already fluent in AI-assisted development, not curious about it, but actively using it to multiply your output.

If you are looking for a well-defined role with clear boundaries and a slower pace, this is not it. If you want to build meaningful software with a small team that ships aggressively and cares deeply about craft, let's talk.

Why This Work Matters

Valsoft portfolio companies serve industries where software is mission-critical. The systems you build will handle real transactions, serve real customers, and directly shape how businesses operate. Your code will run in production, and you will see the impact of your decisions in business outcomes, not just dashboards.

What You Will Learn

You will gain deep experience shipping across diverse codebases and industries, solving problems that look different every time but demand the same core skill: figuring out what needs to exist and building it. You will develop expertise in AI-assisted development workflows, coding agent architecture, and the practical application of AI across enterprise software.