Junior Software Engineer
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About the Role
- You'll ship production code from your first week, not toy features, but real systems.
- You'll have access to mentorship by senior engineers.
- You will work directly with the co-founders, CTO Huy Huynh & CEO Matthew Levin plus another senior engineer.
- The role is on-site at 221 Canal St, NYC.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and ship features end to end with AI agents.
- Contribute to the full-stack (backend, frontend, infrastructure, deployment).
- Write production-grade code with tests.
- Handle edge cases.
- Own what you ship.
- Pair with senior engineers and founders, learning by doing.
Requirements & Tech Stack
- Ruby on Rails 8.1, Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), Postgres, and AWS.
- Experience with Rails is not required.
- You use AI tools to write code and are intentional about how you work.
- Effective cross-disciplinary communicator.
Qualifications
- You've built and shipped something real (e.g., a side project, an open-source tool).
- Strong CS fundamentals: data structures, systems design, ability to reason about how things work under the hood.
- Formal CS education is not required but first principles knowledge is.
- Nice to have: familiarity with any OOP language, open-source contributions, or publicly visible work.
Benefits
- $80k-110k/yr base + equity.
- 20 days PTO.
- Medical, dental, vision.
- 401k.
- Paid parental leave.