Founding full-stack engineer

Location:

Remote

Distributed

Salary/equity:

$170-200k

Unusual equity (see text)

Role/industry:

Full-stack (back-end leaning)

AI (not an AI role, though)

Exp. floor:

No hard floor, but high interview bar

Brief description

This is a founding eng role at a very early stage company building an AI-based web scraping tool. You might (for example) tell their tool to "retrieve the history section on the wikipedia page for each country in Europe" and it would come back with a structured CSV of those history sections.

The role itself is back-end leaning, but like most founding engineer roles, involves a variety of work: back-end, front-end, and devops. This employer is explicitly open to any experience level if you're really good, but does have a very high bar for performance on our interview, particularly the timed-coding section, and will be a difficult interview process. They're looking for smart, fast, flexible people, not any specific set of skills.

Node/React stack.

What they're looking for

[Required]

  • Very fast coding. "I can't work with slow" were their exact words. This bar is high enough that you may pass our interview for general purposes, but not for this role.

  • Comfortable with back-end web development.

  • OK with a very low-structure environment, where you may need to do most things yourself.

  • Comfortable with basic devops, can handle deployments/production issues yourself.

  • Comfortable with React and Node

[Nice-to-have]

  • Interested in web scraping or AI

  • Willing to work US hours

  • Design skills

  • Familiarity with Google Analytics

What they're offering

  • Salary: high 100s, capping out at about 200

  • Equity: they're offering an unusual token-based equity system with the claim that it offers earlier liquidity than traditional equity. You'll need to speak to them for details on this.

  • Fully remote, and open to non-US candidates with the right skillset

  • Very early stage, so lots of room for growth, and on a good trajectory

  • You can freely open-source your code

Hiring process

  • Pass our (Otherbranch's) interviews

  • Technical interview with the founders

Founding full-stack engineer

Remote

Distributed

$170-200k

Unusual equity (see text)

Full-stack (back-end leaning)

AI (not an AI role, though)

No hard floor, but high interview bar

Brief description

This is a founding eng role at a very early stage company building an AI-based web scraping tool. You might (for example) tell their tool to "retrieve the history section on the wikipedia page for each country in Europe" and it would come back with a structured CSV of those history sections.

The role itself is back-end leaning, but like most founding engineer roles, involves a variety of work: back-end, front-end, and devops. This employer is explicitly open to any experience level if you're really good, but does have a very high bar for performance on our interview, particularly the timed-coding section, and will be a difficult interview process. They're looking for smart, fast, flexible people, not any specific set of skills.

Node/React stack.

What they're looking for

[Required]

  • Very fast coding. "I can't work with slow" were their exact words. This bar is high enough that you may pass our interview for general purposes, but not for this role.

  • Comfortable with back-end web development.

  • OK with a very low-structure environment, where you may need to do most things yourself.

  • Comfortable with basic devops, can handle deployments/production issues yourself.

  • Comfortable with React and Node

[Nice-to-have]

  • Interested in web scraping or AI

  • Willing to work US hours

  • Design skills

  • Familiarity with Google Analytics

What they're offering

  • Salary: high 100s, capping out at about 200

  • Equity: they're offering an unusual token-based equity system with the claim that it offers earlier liquidity than traditional equity. You'll need to speak to them for details on this.

  • Fully remote, and open to non-US candidates with the right skillset

  • Very early stage, so lots of room for growth, and on a good trajectory

  • You can freely open-source your code

Hiring process

  • Pass our (Otherbranch's) interviews

  • Technical interview with the founders