Qode is hiring a Founding Engineer to be a key technical leader building our AI-powered product. You will own significant parts of our tech stack, help establish our engineering culture, and directly translate user needs into elegant solutions.
What You'll Do
- Own features end-to-end: design, build, ship, and iterate on backend services, web front-end, and internal tooling.
- Scale our generative AI stack: productionize retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, implement evaluation harnesses, and harden monitoring and alerting.
- Shape engineering culture: introduce best-in-class CI/CD, code quality standards, security, and mentoring practices.
- Collaborate: work with product and sales to translate real user pain points into elegant solutions.
- Influence roadmap: participate in product discovery, weigh technical trade-offs, and help keep the team focused on high-impact work.
What We're Looking For
- 5+ years building and operating production software.
- U.S. work authorization and residency.
- Proven experience shipping LLM or conversational AI products at scale (LLM APIs, vector stores, agent frameworks).
- Proficiency in Python and modern JavaScript; familiarity with SQL and schema design.
- Comfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and infrastructure-as-code.
- Working knowledge of agents, vector search, embeddings, and RAG performance tuning.
- Product taste: you sweat the UX details.
- Good communication skills; you can explain complex trade-offs to non-engineers.
Nice to Have
- Prior healthcare experience.
- Understanding of HIPAA, SOC-2, or other security and compliance frameworks.
- Performance and cost-optimization of machine learning workloads.
Technical Stack
- Languages: Python, JavaScript
- Databases: Postgres, MySQL
- Frontend: NextJS
- AI Tooling: LangSmith
- Infrastructure: AWS
Team & Environment
You will join a small, focused product squad consisting of 2 fullstack engineers and a product manager.
Benefits & Compensation
- 401k match
- Remote-first culture
- Opportunity to shape the technical and cultural foundation of the company
Work Mode
This is a remote position open to candidates located within the United States.
Qode is an equal opportunity employer.
