Founding Software Engineer

Note: We are recruiting on behalf of our valued client. This opportunity is for a position with their organization, not with People Culture Talent. We're excited to help connect talented professionals with this exceptional team!

The Role

The AI-powered shopping platform reinventing purchase decisions for millions of consumers is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to help build groundbreaking technology to billions of searches. This role offers the opportunity to shape the foundation of the engineering team, work across the full stack, and tackle complex challenges — from multimodal search to high-performance inference engines — alongside top engineers, AI researchers, and designers.

What You’ll Own

• Design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features.

• Work with a dynamic team of other engineers, AI researchers, and product designers tackling cutting-edge problems to create a seamless, cohesive experience for users.

• Build across every layer of the stack — web app, container, infrastructure, etc.

• Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system, yourself, and the rest of the team.

What You’ll Bring

• Have 3+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in fast-scaling companies.

• Be a self-directed generalist, capable of picking up any engineering problem and solving it, no matter how tedious.

• Quickly and iteratively ship code that is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable. We love elegant code, but we’re not optimizing for that. We take pride in the excellence of the product we build.

• Exercise exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.

• Enjoy giving high-level abstractions low-level performance.

• Have functional programming experience. If not, no problem; motivated engineers learn it quickly.

• Have worked with NLP and ML models before and understand their capabilities and limitations.

Compensation Band

Their openings span more than one career level. The starting salary range for this role is $175,000 - $240,000 USD. The provided salary depends on many factors, such as work experience and transferable skills, business needs and impact, and market demands.

Benefits

• Join as a Founding Engineer

• Competitive salary and equity packages (roles, responsibilities, and comp grow as we do)

• Top-tier comprehensive health, vision, dental insurance (US)

• 401k plan (US)

• 2x annual full-team offsites

• Relocation assistance

• Commuter stipend

• Productivity stipend

About Our Client

Backed by notable investors including Shasta Ventures GP Nikhil Trivedi (first investor in Canva) and former Walmart and Stitch Fix COO Mike Smith, our client's AI-powered shopping platform is revolutionizing purchase decisions by reducing the typical 79-day shopping journey to just one day. Their innovative neurosymbolic AI agent has already guided millions of users to perfect product matches since late 2023, with plans to scale to over 1B+ searches annually.