SWE (LATM)
RemoteUnited States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and build scalable systems for the AfterQuery Experts site, focusing on data infrastructure that powers foundation model development. Collaborate across research, product, and design to ship features quickly while solving real-world scalability and reliability challenges. Write clean, maintainable code, contribute to documentation, and participate in code reviews and design discussions. Own entire projects end-to-end, balancing speed versus reliability under pressure to deliver simple solutions to complex problems. Work autonomously with high accountability, often requiring banker hours when needed to support heavy loads.
Required Qualifications
- Ideally 5+ years of experience
- Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js and TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and system design
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and NoSQL databases
- Ability to reason about trade-offs and balance speed versus reliability under pressure
- Active GitHub with real projects demonstrating you are a builder at heart
- Works autonomously and collaboratively without burning out under heavy load
- Proactive, identifies problems and drives solutions without being told to
- High-output and high-accountability mindset, can work banker hours when needed
- Strong bias toward delivering simple solutions to complex problems
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Can clearly and compellingly articulate why they want to join a startup and work in AI now
Desired Qualifications
- Background as a founding engineer at a high-growth startup
- Ex-founder of a technically sophisticated and complex product
- Has trialed or succeeded in past fast-paced startup roles with strong references
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