Mid Full-Stack Engineer (Python/FastAPI/React) at Abstra · Remote (Worldwide)
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LLM
A time you used LLM: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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AWS
A time you used AWS: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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Python
A time you used Python: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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React
A time you used React: the problem, what you did yourself, and what happened.
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15+ years of experience
How your experience adds up to what they ask for (15+ years), and the parts most like this job.
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3–5+ years of professional software engineering, with full-stack features shipped to production.
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Tool or function calling, and structured outputs validated against schemas.
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Prompt design, versioning, and checking outputs against source data to limit hallucinations.
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Evaluating model behavior with test sets or eval suites, and handling cost, latency, and failure modes.
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Relational databases: strong PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query performance, and data integrity.
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Why they ask: Design judgement.
How to answer: Draw it, name the trade-offs, say what you learned.
Why they ask: Debugging method.
How to answer: Measure first, then caching, queries, indexes, async work.
Why they ask: Quality habits.
How to answer: Unit, integration, and what you would not test.
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Why they ask: LLM is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Python is named in the posting.
How to answer: One concrete project, one honest lesson.
Why they ask: Opener to see how you frame your story.
How to answer: Two minutes: current role, one achievement that matches this job, why this company now.
Why they ask: Checks ownership and depth.
How to answer: Use situation, action, result. Quantify the result.
Why they ask: Tests accountability and learning.
How to answer: Pick a real failure, own your part, show the fix and what changed afterwards.
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