Founding Engineer

Petra Labs

$120K — $180K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years experience in software development or product management
  • Proficiency in system design and database management
  • Proven track record of building and scaling real products
  • Strong problem decomposition skills for complex technical issues
  • Experience in experimenting and iterating on software solutions

Responsibilities

  • Define and build product end-to-end with user-driven insights
  • Execute experiments to solve ambiguous problems in AI search
  • Design and develop large-scale systems and data models
  • Iterate and optimize software for scalability and performance
  • Oversee technical aspects of product ownership

Benefits

  • Work in a highly autonomous culture with minimal hierarchy
  • Engage in a transparent and truth-seeking work environment
  • Opportunity to contribute to the development of AI-driven innovations
  • Be part of a well-funded startup with a thriving product focus
Full Job Description
What You'll Do
  • Define and build product end-to-end. Deeply understand user needs to iterate on, deploy, and scale software, with extreme ownership
  • Operate at the frontier. We tackle ambiguous, unsolved problems in AI search that require running experiments to uncover novel insights
  • Design and build large-scale systems, data models, and infrastructure


You'll Excel in This Role If You
  • Can quickly and effectively decompose large, ambiguous problems and systems
  • Have built real products before and are comfortable owning large technical surfaces
  • Have strong fundamentals in system design and databases, with good judgment around when to move fast versus build for scale

Process

1. Hiring Manager Screen

2. Technical Interview

3. On-Site Interview

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