Engineer

Hostie AI, Inc.; California (MO); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Hostie AI, Inc. is seeking a software engineer to help build and ship complete features end-to-end. You will work closely with the founders, PMs, Sales, and CS to understand product requirements and trade-offs, taking ownership of your work with a bias toward delivering results.

You will contribute across the full stack with an emphasis on backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth. Learn fast, ask questions, and raise the bar in a fast-paced hospitality tech environment.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code.
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; digs in to fix core issues.
• Strong communication across engineering, product, and sales.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship complete features end-to-end with clean, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements.
• Own your work with attention to detail and bias toward getting things done.
• Contribute across the full stack with focus on backend and distributed systems as you grow.
• Learn fast, ask good questions, raise the bar.

Skills

Software engineering

Ownership

Debugging

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

TypeScript

Node.js

Next.js

React

MongoDB

Job description

Hostie is your restaurant’s Virtual Concierge, making sure every call, text, or question gets answered in your voice. Behind the scenes, we handle guest communication, reservations, events, and takeout automatically, all in one place. Hostie takes care of the noise so your staff can focus on the service.

Restaurants across North America use Hostie to ensure no guest goes unanswered while giving their teams more time to focus on hospitality.

Hostie integrates with platforms like OpenTable, Toast, and SevenRooms and is backed by Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), Obvious Ventures (founded by Ev Williams), and leading hospitality investors.

What You\'ll Do

• Build and ship complete features end-to-end. You’ll write clean, maintainable code to rollout and monitoring in production
• Collaborate closely with the founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and navigate trade-offs
• Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done
• Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth over time
• Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar

About You

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We\’ll give you the keys and projects, but we want you to act like an owner.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understand why and fix the core issues vs just the ticket
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales

Bonus Skills

• Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo.
• Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (WebSockets, etc.)
• Experience integrating third-party APIs.
• Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you\'ve built something with them, even if it’s with Claude Code