- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States · Onsite
- Compensation
- $100k – $180k • 0.1% – 1.0%
- Employment
- Full-time
- Experience level
- MID (4–5 years exp)
- Specialization
- Software Engineer, Wellfound
- Source
- Wellfound
This is your opportunity to help build the next paradigm of AI for your non-work life. Get in on the ground floor, working with product-minded builders from Uber, Instagram, Google and LinkedIn.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the design and development of our core backend services
- Integrate bleeding-edge AI technologies with battle-tested, proven software
- Build resilient infrastructure that gracefully handles high data throughput, real-time interactions, and adaptive self-improving mechanisms
- Help shape our engineering culture, best practices, and technical roadmap
Your Experience:
- 4+ years of experience building production-grade backends, ideally at a high-growth startup or top-tier tech company
- Hands-on proficiency with Python, TypeScript, postgresql
- Experience working with popular libraries/frameworks (FastAPI, Pydantic, Langchain, Socket.IO, JsonFormSchema) and CI/CD platforms (eg Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Native Solutions)
- Bonus: Have shipped LLM-integrated products or worked with vector databases, embeddings, or agentic workflows
Mindset:
- Care deeply about product quality, performance, and user experience
- Excited to work at a mission-driven startup solving a real, emotionally resonant problem
- Ahead of the curve in leveraging (good) vibe-coding techniques to enhance output and speed
- Entrepreneurial, good communicator, team player