Onton

Founding Software Engineer

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1 year ago

Base Salary

$175k - $240k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Help establish the foundation for Onton's engineering team as a Founding Engineer.
  • Design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features.
  • Build across the web application, containers, infrastructure, and other layers of the stack.
  • Collaborate with engineers, AI researchers, and product designers to create a cohesive user experience.
  • Continuously improve the system, engineering practices, and team capabilities.
  • Solve challenging problems involving graph engines, multimodal search, natural-language parsing, ML models, and inference systems.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of relevant engineering experience, preferably at fast-scaling companies.
  • Ability to work as a self-directed generalist who can solve a broad range of engineering problems.
  • Ability to ship code quickly and iteratively while maintaining correctness, robustness, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Functional programming experience is preferred but not required.
  • Experience with NLP and ML models and an understanding of their capabilities and limitations is preferred.
  • Ability to attend onsite final-round interviews and work full-time in person initially in San Francisco.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work with 3 days per week in the San Francisco office.
  • Relocation compensation is offered for candidates moving to the San Francisco area.
  • After one year, team members may transition to fully remote work while operating primarily on Pacific Time.
  • Final-round interviews are conducted onsite at the San Francisco office.

Tech Stack

Redis
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About Onton

1-10 employees

Next-generation product search starting with home decor and furniture

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