Senior ai engineer / full stack engineer
about the role
as a senior full stack engineer, you'll be an influential member of our product and engineering team, leading r&d investigations into candidate product and technology applications, building new products from 0 to 1, and working with an interested and inspired team to continuously enhance and scale our category-defining platform and the systems that support it. You'll collaborate closely with fellow engineers, product managers, sales and operations leaders to tackle real business, technology and customer-facing problems that will have a direct, and highly visible, impact on the success of our products and the families that depend on them.
*this is a hands-on software engineering role. You will join a small team of experienced engineers that are interested in the "why", care about quality, and love to ship products.
*c1 english level mandatory.
what you'll do
● add to an engineering team and culture with a strong bias for impact and getting stuff out into the world
● our team loves to ship software – we are looking for passionate collaborators who love to build, and use technology to solve complex problems
● bring expertise, opinions and technical leadership to influence technology selection, systems design and software development practice
● communicate clearly and persuasively to influence outcomes and inspire action
● contribute fresh ideas and a growth mindset to elevate standards for code quality, testing, deployment and developer mentorship
● bring something new to our small r&d team – help us continue to raise the skill, knowledge and experience level of our team
what we're looking for:
● +8 years of professional experience in software engineering, building customer-facing software (startup experience preferred)
● proven track record working with our technology stack: node, typescript, react, terraform, github actions, aws (preferred; not required)
● exposure to leadership or mentorship roles, particularly on a remote development team
● ability to lead design and implement efficient restful apis and microservices
● ba/bs in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience
● attention to technical excellence, and proficiency with object-oriented programming
● demonstrated ability to balance pragmatism and innovation in your technical decision-making to maximize roi, balance trade-offs (speed, accuracy), and manage risk
● proficiency unpacking business problems into workable, logical concerns, and communicating complex concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders
● ability to confidently articulate the pros and cons of available solutions and offer thoughtful recommendations that demonstrate your understanding of business and user goals, incentives and constraints
● ability to pair, mentor and inspire other developers through action
● ideal candidate will have built an application that consumed ai via apis, doing little-to-no model training or layering –– just "prompt engineering". Tools like open ai playground, openai api, n8n, adaline, llamacloud, firecrawl
● ideal candidate will have built an application that leveraged a rag system to layer multiple information sources on top of gpt/knowledge bases to augment intelligent and response quality
● example use cases: image classification, text analysis, tabular data analysis, translation and language models
● knowledge of cloud native software development, modern devops and security standards, patterns and best practices
● experience scaling applications with containers and container orchestration frameworks
● fluent in english (c1 level or higher), with experience working in english-speaking teams.
bonus stuff
● domain experience working on process automation and/or document processing and manipulation projects at commercial scale.
● technical expertise in distributed systems
● familiarity deploying 3p document manipulation libraries, data mapping and templating, rpa, ai, customer scripting and application development, orms or other technologies to automate repetitive, rule-based document processing and data entry tasks that typically require human intervention.
* *we are not expecting you to be an expert in everything described above. If you check most of the boxes, and are ready to roll up your sleeves and learn, we'd love to hear from you.
job type: full-time
pay: $100, $120,000.00 per month
work location: remote
expected start date: 01/11/2025