Software Engineer

Root Access Inc

$100K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in backend, platform, or infrastructure engineering
  • Strong skills in data structures, APIs, async systems, and distributed services
  • Proven ability to build production data pipelines or ETL systems
  • Proficiency in Python and TypeScript for production use
  • Familiarity with developer tools and infrastructure is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Implement the core agent architecture focusing on state, tools, workflows, and evaluations
  • Lead infrastructure development on AWS, GCP, and other cloud platforms
  • Contribute to both backend and frontend aspects of the product
  • Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines for converting messy data into structured context
  • Integrate large language models and retrieval infrastructure into production systems
  • Establish systems for reliability, performance, and cost control with guardrails and evaluations
  • Collaborate closely with founders and product teams to address user needs through functional features

Benefits

  • Autonomy in project ownership and decision-making
  • Opportunity to work on advanced AI/ML technologies
  • Chance to build across the entire tech stack
  • Collaboration with founding team members
  • Dynamic and fun work environment
Full Job Description
We're looking for a Software Engineer to join the founding team to own the core agent and data systems development. This is an intense role that will be fun for the right person. You will have a lot of autonomy and build across the stack.

Who You Are

You're a Software Engineer who has a strong grasp on building systems and handling large amounts of data, with a desire to get hands-on with advanced AI/ML work.

What You'll Build
  • Implement the core agent architecture (state, tools, workflows, evaluations)
  • Lead the infrastructure development on AWS / GCP and other cloud providers
  • Contribute across both the backend and frontend of the product
  • Design and maintain data ingestion pipelines that turn messy inputs into structured, usable context
  • Integrate LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval infrastructure into production systems
  • Build guardrails, evals, and observability to ensure reliability, performance, and cost control
  • Work closely with founders and product to translate real user needs into shipped functionality


You likely have:
  • 3+ years of experience as a backend, platform, or infrastructure engineer
  • Strong fundamentals in data structures, APIs, async systems, and distributed services
  • Experience building production data pipelines, ETL systems, or search/retrieval infrastructure
  • Strong capability working with Python and TypeScript in production

Ideal to have:
  • Experience in a startup building a product
  • Background in developer tools, infra, or technical products
  • Experience handling unstructured or domain-specific data

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