Senior Software Engineer

Vellum; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Vellum is seeking an early engineer to shape both the technical and cultural evolution of the company. You’ll tackle hard problems, design robust backend systems, and guide critical infrastructure as the team grows.

You’ll own major backend components, define green-field projects, and collaborate with customers to deliver end-to-end solutions while helping build a fast-moving, collaborative culture at Vellum.

Job description

What it means to be an early engineer

Joining Vellum this early means that you’re going to play a huge part in guiding both the technical and cultural evolution of the company. Together, we’re going to face the hardest technical challenges this journey has to offer head-on. As the team grows, you’ll be the battle hardened expert that everyone looks towards for guidance.

With great power comes great responsibility.

What you’re signing up for

• Tackling our most difficult (and interesting) problems - prompt chaining, fine-tuning infrastructure, and multimodality, just to name a few
• Designing, architecting, and building robust critical infrastructure
• Owning our most important backend systems
• Defining and scoping green-field projects that move the company forward
• Working closely with customers to understand what the need, figuring out how to make them successful, and owning the solutions end to end
• Serving as a cultural pillar of the team
• Navigating a fast-moving, highly competitive landscape

Our stack

• Google Cloud Platform - as our cloud provider
• Postgres - as our primary database
• Python - what we write our backend in
• Django - for our webservers
• Flask - for our microservices
• Typescript - what we write our frontend in
• React - as our frontend framework

Working at Vellum

• We’re laser focused on helping companies bring AI into production and providing real business value. Decision making is simple: if what we do allows our users to increase how many use cases of AI they’re able to successfully put into production, then we do it!
• Don’t just cut corners. Cut the right corners (i.e. reduce scope, not quality). What can you do with 10% of your time to get 90% of the desired impact? Now that you only spent 10% of the time on this task, imagine how much more can be done with the rest of your time!
• Everyone is a 1000x engineer/designer/pm when they’re passionate about the problems they’re solving and love the people they’re working with
• Because we trust each other, we can move fast and have fun doing it

P.S. Why the name Vellum?

• Vellum is a type of paper - the Magna Carta was written on Vellum. We intend to be the standard source of record in production
• You can’t spell Vellum without LLM