Senior Software Engineer
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Requirements
• You’ve consistently taken technical ownership of production-grade software. • You’re experienced with application development in Python. • You’ve built and implemented data models and database interactions. • You develop an obsession with understanding your users’ goals and incorporating this knowledge into your solutions. • Take pride in developing quality code and practices. • Are aggressively seeking ways to use AI better in your own workflows. • Mission obsession & urgency: We are obsessed with building engineering AGI as quickly as possible. We also recognize that as a startup, speed is our most precious competitive advantage. We are constantly asking ourselves what we can do to go faster. We make tradeoffs and sacrifices (personally and in the workplace) in exchange for speed. • Intellectual excellence & curiosity: We ask “what if?” and experiment liberally. We always look for better ways of doing something. We read voraciously. We challenge each other to be better. We surround ourselves with A players and we actively and unapologetically reject B players (and even B+ players⸺because they tend to surround themselves with C players). • Shipping discipline: We treat production with respect. We test and demo our product constantly. We listen attentively to our customers, users, and stakeholders, and we respect our commitments to them. We also respect our commitments to each other and will go the extra mile (or ten or one hundred) to honor them. • Ownership: We all have significant ownership stakes in the company and operate in founder mode. We believe in hierarchical requirements but not in hierarchical information flows. If we see that something is broken or can be done better, we flag it and we fix it. We encourage each other to play with and fix anything and everything... but there’s a clear owner for everything. • Interview process: • Initial screening call (30 mins) • Biographical/behavioural interview (45 mins) • Technical interview (60 mins) • CEO interview (30 mins)
Responsibilities
• Work with our team to understand our Archie capability roadmap and decompose capabilities into technical development. • Turn capability prototypes and PoCs from our AI research team into robust, scalable implementations. • Diagnose and solve technical problems identified by our team or users. • Develop and act on automated platform tests, including traditional software testing, agentic AI evals, and infrastructure. • Improve Archie’s scalability and robustness through system architecture design and implementation.
Benefits
• Equity options mentioned as part of compensation: "Ownership comes by default." • Insurance benefits likely exist as part of the compensation package since they often accompany senior positions in tech companies, yet no specific insurance plans are mentioned. • Remote work option clearly mentioned as the candidate may choose to base themselves in any part of the US or Canada with existing authorization and has co-working sessions at our San Mateo office approximately one week out of every six, which suggests flexibility but not full remote capability due to required onsite presence for a portion of time.