Software Engineer, Gap Year

About the Role

Netic’s Gap Year Software Engineers join our product team for a year to build the features that put AI in the hands of real businesses. This role is for college students who want to take a year off school to work full-time as an engineer, combining technical excellence with customer empathy to craft products that make complex AI feel simple and deliver immediate value to essential service industries.

Gap Year engineers are full-time employees, not interns. You’ll earn a full salary and equity, have a dedicated mentor, and we’ll cover room and board in an apartment next to our office in San Francisco or New York.

Key Responsibilities

• Build agentic products: Design, code, and ship full-stack features for Netic’s AI platform.
• Co‑create with customers: Work closely with our customers, including on-site, to understand workflows, gather feedback, and turn pain points into features that stick.
• Own end‑to‑end delivery: Drive projects from spec to production, handling data models, APIs, front‑end polish, and post‑launch iteration.
• Ensure quality: Build, test, and monitor features in production to ensure reliability and performance.
• Learn how a company is built: Sit in on sales calls and leadership meetings to see how a fast-growing startup wins customers, makes decisions, and builds a team.
• Build your founder network: Get to know our board, investors, and leaders across tech.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proven builder: Shipped real projects end-to-end.
• Full‑stack foundations: Comfortable with React, TypeScript, and Python, or ready to pick them up fast.
• AI experience (nice-to-have): Hands‑on with LLM APIs, embeddings, or RAG patterns—or hunger to learn fast.
• Customer empathy: Care about users and want to work with them directly.
• Founder‑level ambition: Desire to start a company and learn how great companies are built.
• Excellent communicator: Able to explain technical trade‑offs and product decisions.

Program Details

• Duration: 12 months, full-time, in person in San Francisco or New York.
• Eligibility: Currently enrolled in college and able to take a full year off before returning to finish your degree.
• Compensation: Full-time base salary and equity.
• Housing: Room and board fully covered, in an apartment next to our office.