Founding Software Engineer
OuterSignal10 months ago
Responsibilities
- Architect and own core systems processing millions of orders across APIs and LLM pipelines.
- Build queue-based microservices using Redis, Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and Vercel.
- Integrate vector databases and RAG pipelines for real-time customer-profile search and enrichment.
- Ship end-to-end APIs, dashboards, and integrations with Shopify, Klaviyo, Slack, Zapier, and Gorgias.
- Maintain privacy and compliance standards.
- Collaborate with the founding team on roadmap, product direction, and hiring future engineers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience, ideally focused on backend infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Fluency in JavaScript or TypeScript with Node.js.
- Experience with vector databases such as Pinecone, Weaviate, or pgvector and with RAG architectures.
- Experience designing schemas and scaling PostgreSQL.
- Experience in a fast-paced startup or willingness to work in a dynamic, changing environment.
- Python or ML exposure, LLM experience, Shopify app development, and data-privacy framework experience are preferred.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity in a venture-backed company.
- Early opportunity to shape the engineering organization and work directly with the founding team.
- High-leverage work with direct impact on customers, revenue, and growth.
- Broad ownership across AI pipelines, Shopify apps, and RAG/vector-search infrastructure.
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About OuterSignal
OuterSignal provides brands with instant VIP-customer detection and real-time, fully enriched customer profile data on every single order. It quickly, securely, and compliantly integrates with any eCommerce platform, allowing brands to monitor and segment customers based on age, gender, location, profession, income, social following, and more. Whether it’s flagging celebrities, athletes, investors, podcasters, buyers at large retail chains, or simply identifying micro-influencers within a target cohort (i.e. college-aged influencers), OuterSignal finds, flags and activates the customers that matter most while providing unprecedented visibility into the actual customers behind a brand.