Founding Software Engineer at Stardrift

We are building a world-class search booking experience. In our vision of the world, you won’t book travel by opening ten tabs in Google Flights; you’ll book through a personalized AI assistant that understands everything about you and automatically arranges your trip for you. We're looking for a founding engineer to join the our team of 3-4. You'll tackle everything from optimizing LLM performance and building evals to integrating APIs like Amadeus and Duffel. We have no shortage of customer interest and are bottlenecked entirely on product development. Your job will be to take customer feedback and improve our product, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founder & the rest of founding team. You are a backend engineer who is full-stack curious. You aren’t afraid to get your hands dirty in the rest of the stack—whether that’s writing complex React code, developing a data pipeline from scratch or configuring nginx. You design simple, elegant solutions to complex problems . Bonus if you’re mathematically capable. You work fast and produce good code. You are comfortable with uncertainty . We pivot weekly based on customer feedback; you’re aren’t too attached to specific features or