Fullstack Engineer

Onyx Security; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx Security is seeking a software engineer for a pivotal role in shaping its core product. You'll build UI experiences for GenAI applications and extend backend functionalities, all in a fast-moving startup environment based in San Francisco, CA.

The ideal candidate has 1-5 years of experience, knowledge of Typescript, React, and Python, and excellent communication skills. Join us to help create the biggest GenAI for work application in the world.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years of software engineering experience in real-world applications.
• Ability to work collaboratively with teammates and external customers.
• Enjoyment of working in fast-paced startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Build consumer-grade UI experiences for the GenAI Chat and Enterprise Search.
• Extend backend functionalities and APIs.
• Improve the flexibility and quality of the search pipeline.
• Implement NLP research approaches to enhance system capabilities.
• Own the development cycle of new features from conception to production.
• Collaborate with founders to shape product direction.

Skills

Typescript

React

NextJS

Python

Relational DBs (Postgres)

Excellent communication skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

About the role

Onyx is a popular open source project with hundreds of thousands of users. The project has over 13K stars and over 3K community members across Slack and Discord (these stats may already be out of date when you read this). You’ll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future.

As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core product. Help us become the biggest “GenAI for work” application in the world. This is an in-person role based in San Francisco, CA.

You’ll be:

• Building a consumer grade UI experience for the GenAI Chat, Enterprise Search, Agents, and Admin features
• Extending the backend functionalities and APIs
• Improving the flexibility and quality of the search pipeline, building a semantic understanding of customer organizations, extending the current permission/access controls, and expanding the knowledge curation features
• Implementing the latest approaches in NLP research like LLM based Knowledge Graphs, StructRAG, Agent/Deep-Research, etc. to increase the range of questions the system can answer (AI / deep learning experience not required)
• Own the entire development cycle of new features, from conception to production
• Collaborate with the founders and team to shape and influence the direction of the product and contribute to the engineering strategy

You’ll be successful if you…

• Have 1-5 years (or more) of software engineering experience building real-world applications
• Know Typescript/React/NextJS, Python, Relational DBs (Postgres)
• Enjoy working in a fast moving startup with low amounts of process
• Have excellent communication skills, with a strong ability to collaborate with others (both teammates and external customers)

Bonus points

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), and on-prem/cloud deployments
• Experience (or even just interest) in AI (NLP, Deep Learning, GenAI) and information retrieval
• Previous founder or early engineer at seed/series-A startup