Are you a senior or principal full-stack software engineer with startup experience who would like to help us to scale the next generation of AI-powered shopping experiences to thousands of customers and hundreds of millions of shopper sessions?
Who we are
We are an exciting new startup, Product Genius, bringing the power of the most advanced AI to small and medium-sized businesses so that they can compete online. We help stores provide their visitors with great information so that shoppers can make good buying decisions more easily.
We have proven in A/B tests that our product (Product Genius) provides a 50% - 300% increase in shopper engagement and 20% revenue lift for the online stores that use it. This means that we can essentially mint profit for stores, and they are signing up for our Product Genius through our automated onboarding flow. We know we are onto something, and now we need to work on scaling as we continue to incorporate our learnings from our initial batches of customers into our offering.
Our lead investor and board member has over two decades of experience in eCommerce, having co-founded and built two >$billion startups, Endeca and Toast, and having funded many other successful eCommerce startups. Our CEO has over two decades of experience building deep learning-based technology and products.
We've designed and implemented cutting-edge A.I. learning systems for the most innovative technology companies in the world, and now we're bringing our A.I. to e-commerce to give the same power to small businesses who need it most.
Our product is the first content management system for applying AI-generated and AI-curated content to eCommerce. Our AI technology leverages large deep learning models with state-of-the-art AI-control developed in a $40M DARPA AI program with Stanford and MIT.
Much of our team is located in Boston, Philadelphia, and Chicago. We work together very collaboratively over Slack and Zoom, getting together periodically in person.
Who you are
- Your motivation is to make the experience awesome for the end users. Knowing that your work had a real impact for real-world customers makes you super happy.
- You love checking stuff off a to-do list, but also appreciate being on a fast-moving team where our to-do list continues to evolve.
- You balance your love of creating beautiful code and architectures, with the needs of a fast-moving startup where we sometimes need to deliver functionality to the end user with code that isnt super pretty, at least at first.
- You are generous with others and collaborate well in a team environment.
- You have a strong interest in being part of a successful high-growth company, and part of a team building AI-first software products.
- You are a seasoned software architect, you have ideas about product and features yourself, and you feel comfortable brainstorming and defining features in collaboration with product leadership, as well as with machine learning engineers and other software engineers.
- You are interested to help lead/mentor junior engineers.
- You have made a measurable impact on a commercial code base, working in a startup or other highly dynamic environment.
- You are proficient in backend software engineering and technologies such as
- server side Python 3.x,
- caching,
- reinforcement learning and/or machine learning architectures,
- modern database technologies,
- and cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
- A working knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML5, React, Node.js, Websockets, etc. is a big plus.
- You have ideally 10+ years of work experience in software development
What you will do
- You will be a leader on our product development team, working with software engineers, machine learning engineers, and product leads to help develop our product for end-users.
- You will take a leading role in architecture discussions for the components of our product.
- Work in an agile environment, rapidly delivering shippable features into production.
- Consider design constraints as you deliver backend APIs meeting front-end requirements, and communicate these ideas regularly with the team.
We provide comprehensive healthcare (including dental and vision), commuter benefit, 401k plan, and stock options.
You may not feel that you have all of the experience and skills listed above, but if you are very excited about this role, please apply anyway. We have found that people who are passionate to join us are also often the people who we are passionate to hire..
We value a diverse team, and we have seen firsthand that as our team diversity has increased, so has the quality of our ideas, teamwork, and delivery.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or other characteristics.
