Senior Software Engineer, AI (Founding Engineer)

Wayfinder; Ontario; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in AI-driven e-commerce solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their founding team. This role involves significant backend development, working closely with co-founders to shape the product from the ground up. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in web applications and a strong passion for building innovative solutions. This is a unique opportunity to make a substantial impact in a stealth mode startup with exciting growth potential.

Benefits

Significant equity ownership

Work on exciting AI products

Play a major role in shaping the v1

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building modern web applications.
• Full-stack experience that includes Typescript, RESTful APIs, React.

Responsibilities

• Play a critical role in building and shaping Caddie.
• Work on infrastructure, AI, ML, core features.

Skills

Full-stack experience

Typescript

RESTful APIs

React

AI

ML

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

NestJS

Pulumi

Terraform

LLama 2

OpenAI APIs

LangChain

LangGraph

e-commerce APIs

Job description

Caddie helps e-commerce companies improve their online conversion with an AI Superbar. It combines search with personalized sales assistance. It helps customers find products and answers their questions to drive purchasing behaviour.

We use AI and machine learning to guide customers similarly to a salesperson in a store. We're a Y Combinator company with $3M+ in funding. We’re currently in stealth mode, working with a set of large e-commerce customers who are paying us to help them fix their conversion.

About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer (Founding Engineer) , you’ll play a critical role in building and shaping Caddie. We’re still pretty early, so you’ll get a chance to work on infrastructure, AI, ML, core features, and everything in between. Our product has a small front-end footprint so most of the work is backend. You’ll work hand-in-hand with the co-founders to go from zero to one.

What We’re Looking For

We’ll keep it short. We’re looking for great people rather than checking 100 boxes.

• 5+ years of experience building modern web applications
• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Full-stack experience that includes Typescript, RESTful APIs, React
• A passion for building something incredible from the ground up

Bonus Points

• Worked on search, AI or ML products
• Experience with any of the following : NestJS, Pulumi, Terraform, LLama 2, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, e-commerce APIs (e.g. Shopify, Magento)
• Worked with microservices, Domain-driven design, Object Oriented Programming.

Title : Senior Software Engineer, AI

Salary : $150k - $200k

Equity : 0.50% to 1%

Highlights

• 1st Software Engineer on the team
• Significant equity ownership
• Work on exciting AI products
• Play a major role in shaping the v1

How to Apply

Please apply directly on this page. We’d still love to hear from you if you don't have any of the bonus points. You might have other bonus points we haven’t listed.