Founding Engineer

Altek AI; Norway; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Early-stage impact

International growth

Job summary

ALTEK AI, a Norwegian startup building AI to automate hotel operations, seeks its first internal engineer. You will join the product and technology team, shaping how we build tech going forward, from architecture in Python to frontend in React/TypeScript.

Join early to influence technical decisions, with opportunities to work directly with hotels and customers, and a meaningful equity stake for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Must have strong Python backend experience and production systems exposure.
• Hands-on with LLMs/AI agents and tool calling.
• Experience building full-stack solutions across backend and frontend.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve AI agents and LLM systems in production.
• Define when AI should act vs. involve humans.
• Work across stack from Python backend to React/TypeScript frontend.
• Move ideas from prototype to production with rapid iteration.
• Collaborate with hotels to translate problems into technical decisions.

Skills

Python backend

LLMs/AI agents

Frontend (React/TypeScript)

Production systems

Independent decision making

Tools

Python

FastAPI

React

TypeScript

LLMs

Tool calling

Job description

Join us and build the AI layer that runs hotels around the world

ALTEK AI is a Norwegian AI startup building the technology that automates hotel operations, starting with guest communication. Founded in 2024 by two technical co-founders, we've grown in under two years from our first customer to 115 hotels signed across 8 countries, approaching NOK 4M in ARR, with several major hotel chains in the pipeline. We're now scaling further internationally, including into the US, and raising a seed round to accelerate that growth.

Today, our core product is AI Email, which already gives hotels contextual reply suggestions based on availability, pricing, and reservations, powered by AI agents that pull information from the hotel's various systems. The ambition goes far beyond email: over time, these agents will also automate the research, coordination, and execution behind decisions. AI Phone is the next step on this path, toward a platform where hotel teams spend less time operating software and more time doing hospitality.

About the role

The founders can no longer own all technical development themselves, so we're hiring our very first internal engineer. You'll join the product and technology team, report to both founders, and help define how we build technology going forward. This isn't a role where you implement a finished roadmap.

You'll get to:

• Build and evolve AI agents and LLM systems in production, including retrieval/grounding, tool calling/skills, and evaluation infrastructure
• Define the logic for when AI should act on its own, and when a human should be involved
• Work across the whole stack, from architecture and backend in Python to frontend in React/TypeScript
• Take things from idea and prototype to production, and iterate quickly based on real usage
• Work closely with hotels and translate customer problems into technical and product decisions

Because you're joining this early, the growth potential is significant.

Who we're looking for

• A strong software engineer with solid experience in Python and backend development
• Hands-on experience with LLMs/LLM APIs, ideally also AI agents and tool calling
• Experience taking systems from prototype to production, and understand the difference between a demo and something that has to be stable for real customers every day
• Enough understanding of frontend (React/TypeScript) to build a full-stack solution yourself
• Comfortable working independently and making decisions without everything being specified upfront
• Fluent in English, spoken and written. Norwegian is a plus, not a requirement

You need to be comfortable occasionally traveling to hotels and customer meetings.

We build on Python and FastAPI on the backend, LLMs and AI agents, evals and grounding, React/TypeScript on the frontend, and run on Google Cloud. You don't need to have worked with exactly this before, but it's a plus.

We're an early-stage technology company, and specific frameworks and tools can be learned on the job. Either way, you'll have real influence on the technical choices we make going forward.

Why ALTEK AI?

• Real influence as our first internal engineer, alongside two technical co-founders
• Work with the latest LLM and AI agent technologies, in production and with real customers
• Ambition to build a large, international technology company, not just a small local SaaS business
• Great timing: product, customers, revenue, and capital are in place, while the team is still small enough that you truly matter
• A meaningful equity stake in the company for the right candidate
• Close to customers, with fast feedback on what you build, in an international and social industry

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