MTS - Engineering

Poke

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

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software engineering or related field.
  • Proven ability to develop high-concurrency, low-latency systems under load.
  • Experience prototyping and iterating on workflows from the ground up.
  • Familiarity with APIs and SDKs; experience making platforms extensible.
  • Understanding of AI model evaluation and output quality management.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement robust infrastructure that scales efficiently.
  • Prototype and launch new workflows that meet product needs.
  • Create extensible APIs and SDKs for external developers.
  • Analyze and improve AI model performance in production environments.
  • Stabilize systems while balancing feature development and deployment.

Benefits

  • Work alongside a strong, talent-dense engineering team.
  • Opportunity to impact core infrastructure and product simultaneously.
  • Engage in a culture that values low egos and high ownership.
  • Flexible team structure that encourages cross-functional skill development.
  • Freedom to explore and innovate in a rapidly scaling environment.
Full Job Description
The Context

For the last year, our core engineering team has built this entire agent platform from the ground up. Now, traffic and concurrent agent executions are scaling by orders of magnitude. We need engineers to harden infrastructure without slowing down feature velocity.

We only care about technical depth, obsession with your craft, and how well you can build alongside us. Our current team is strongly connected and talent-dense, with backgrounds from Jane Street, MIT/Stanford research, and International Olympiads, but we care more about experience building than your pedigree.

ThCreate Dashboarde Role

We hire across many strengths under one title. You are a T-shaped engineer who can navigate the whole stack, but you are uniquely experienced in at least one of these areas:
  • Scale & Infra: High-concurrency, low-latency, distributed state under heavy load.
  • Product: Prototyping, shipping, and iterating on agentic workflows zero-to-one.
  • Extensibility & DevTools: APIs, SDKs, and primitives that make Poke programmable by external developers.
  • AI Runtime & Evals: Tool use, model selection, and output quality in production.
  • Post-Training & Alignment. SFT, preference optimization, reward modeling, synthetic data generation, eval design, and improving agent performance through training rather than prompting.


We work mostly in Typescript and some Python, but lack of experience in these specific languages is not a deal breaker.

What we're looking for
  • Rigor under pressure. You move between infra, product, and debugging. You can stabilize melting systems while still shipping features.
  • Platform thinking. You design primitives, not one-off features. You build solutions that solve today's product needs while unlocking ten future use cases.
  • Low ego. The talent bar is high, but no important problem is beneath us.


Something Else

If you don't fit perfectly into a bucket, that's fine. We care more about ownership and technical depth over specific labels.

Tell us what you are unusually good at, what systems you've owned, and why it transfers here. Include a link to your GitHub, a project you're proud of, or a breakdown of the hardest technical problem you've solved.

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