Fullstack Engineer

Onyx; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Onyx is seeking a Software Engineer in San Francisco to play a critical role in developing a leading GenAI for work application. You will build UI experiences, enhance backend functionalities, and work on innovative NLP features. The ideal candidate has 1-5 years of software engineering experience and knowledge of Typescript, React, NextJS, and Python. An ability to thrive in a dynamic startup atmosphere is essential. Bonus points for cloud experience and interest in AI.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years or more of software engineering experience building real-world applications.
• Excellent communication skills and strong collaboration ability.

Responsibilities

• Build a consumer-grade UI for the GenAI Chat and other features.
• Extend the backend functionalities and APIs.
• Improve the search pipeline and knowledge curation features.
• Implement approaches in NLP research to enhance system capabilities.
• Own the development cycle of new features.
• Collaborate with founders and team on product direction.

Skills

Typescript

React

NextJS

Python

Relational DBs (Postgres)

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 more than 3K community members across Slack and Discord. You’ll have the opportunity to build in the open and your work may be used by millions of people in the future.

Your impact

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 (see below)
• 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