Founding Software Engineer

Overview

Why GuideSage

• ‍Mission-driven commitment to positively contribute to the world by helping people learn
• Full competitive salary, benefits, and meaningful equity on day one
• Freedom to craft great software and create a brand-new product from scratch
• Flexibility to build a team you love working with 
• Clear business model, product strategy, and prospective customers
• Opportunity to work at the cutting edge of applying GenAI and ML to solve real-world business problems in a $400 billion market with an even larger impact on how people learn everywhere 

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with co-founders, business stakeholders, and designers to iteratively create the product vision, strategy, and roadmap
• Develop the software and lead the engineering work to create a product that users love and customers buy
• Establish the technical foundation, including the architecture, infrastructure, and tech stack
• Decide on the programming languages, frameworks, and tools based on the company’s needs, scalability, and product goals
• Setup the necessary infrastructure to build and deploy the software, including cloud services, DevOps, CI/CD, and other tools and services
• Ensure code quality, setting up best practices for the development process, and fostering a strong engineering culture
• Hire and manage 1-2 engineers and shape the engineering team's culture, including communication norms, pace, and stage-appropriate work processes
• Stay current with the latest developments in AI and bring insights to the business and product strategy
• Help to define and shape the culture of the company

Ideal Profile

• Exceptional software engineering and coding skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast-changing, high-uncertainty startup environment
• Great at making technology stack, build/buy, and architecture choices
• Experience building commercial B2B enterprise SaaS systems
• Experience working in early-stage startups or teams building from zero to one
• Experience building on LLM APIs and working with ML
• Capable of building and leading a small engineering team 
• Interested in the mission