Full Stack Engineer

Paragon AI, San Francisco, California +2

What you will do

As a founding engineer you will be a customer-obsessed, product-focused and adaptable full stack Software Engineer. As one of the first Software Engineers at Pilot AI you’ll lead the design, development, and operations of our products. We’re a small and autonomous team, so, you’ll end up wearing many hats and having meaningful impact.
As we are on the forefront of technology, particularly in AI, you will be on the cutting edge of implementing and developing technologies and methods which can at times include a combination reading white papers, technical papers and figuring it out!
As a founding engineer, you’ll comfortably go up and down the stack; from writing backend and frontend code, to running infrastructure, to implementing whatever necessary tool or process we don’t yet have.
You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects, and champion improvements that prevent future issues.
It doesn’t matter what languages and tools you know when you join us, but it does matter that you can write clean, effective code and be excited by learning new languages and tools. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need engineers who can do the same. Our current stack is:

What you will do

As a founding engineer you will be a customer-obsessed, product-focused and adaptable full stack Software Engineer. As one of the first Software Engineers at Pilot AI you’ll lead the design, development, and operations of our products. We’re a small and autonomous team, so, you’ll end up wearing many hats and having meaningful impact.
As we are on the forefront of technology, particularly in AI, you will be on the cutting edge of implementing and developing technologies and methods which can at times include a combination reading white papers, technical papers and figuring it out!
As a founding engineer, you’ll comfortably go up and down the stack; from writing backend and frontend code, to running infrastructure, to implementing whatever necessary tool or process we don’t yet have.
You seek out the root cause when debugging software defects, and champion improvements that prevent future issues.
It doesn’t matter what languages and tools you know when you join us, but it does matter that you can write clean, effective code and be excited by learning new languages and tools. Our software is constantly evolving, so we need engineers who can do the same. Our current stack is:

What you need

3+ years experience in professional software development, ideally some of which you’ve spent in startups or other high ownership environment
Self-starter who finds excitement in delivering value to users
Experience owning technically challenging and demanding projects
Experience across the entire stack, from backend to frontend and excited to tackle brand new technologies you’ve never worked with before
Not afraid to do things that have never been done before
You are able to, or want to be able to, work at every level of the stack. We believe this to be the strongest indicator of extraordinary engineers.
You get excited about learning new things
You're excited by our mission and the potential of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
Exceptional Javascript, Python, Mongo DB, Cloud infrastructure skills
Can write excellent, clean code and understand how to scale applications.
Built and worked on complex web applications
You take care to write code that your colleagues will also own, understand, and maintain.
You proactively identify opportunities to improve the maintainability, scalability and reliability of business-critical systems.
A deep understanding of software engineering principles and design patterns — and an even better knowledge of when to apply them
You enjoy taking an active role in the development process and strive to continuously improve engineering practices.
You make the engineering team more effective through the pragmatic application of useful code tools and patterns.
Ability to make technical decisions quickly and concisely communicate your decision making process
You’re clear and concise in explaining your thought process and in enumerating the tradeoffs made in your work.
You care deeply about customer needs, the problems they face, and therefore the products we’re building to solve them. A customer-first mindset and an interest in talking with customers to make sure what we’re building meets their needs
Customer Obsession: We would be nothing without our customers, and we believe being obsessed about our customers is a competitive advantage. Every single member of the team responds to customers, helps them debug issues, and deeply understands our customer's goals, even outside of Pilot AI. The easiest way to obsess over our customers is to genuinely care about as humans, which naturally turns into the desire to want to help them.
You work well with designers and product managers to come up with optimal solutions.
interested in career growth and building an awesome company with a great team
Habit of introspection and understanding what’s helped you be successful in the past
An ability to balance a sense of urgency with shipping high quality and pragmatic solutions
Ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
You’re excited by the ambiguity of being one of the first employees in an early-stage company.
You care deeply about your growth and the rate at which you grow. The success of our company is a function of the people in our team. Your growth rate will be directly causal to Pilot AI's growth rate. We spend a lot of time thinking about each other’s success paths.
Passion for creating exceptional user experiences and driving product innovation.
You have experience taking the lead in planning and executing the development roadmap for complex software projects.
You’re a great communicator and collaborator

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