Key skills
Artificial IntelligenceData EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureGoTypeScriptRubyServer-side Web ApplicationsEvent-driven ArchitectureRuby on RailsLaravelData PipelinesSearch Index DesignLarge Language Models (LLM) IntegrationAILLMRails
About this role
Mento is a career technology company focused on providing coaching through human and AI-based solutions. They are seeking a senior software engineer to build impactful AI and software coaching products, working closely with design and coaching teams to enhance user experience.
Responsibilities:
- Building features and experiences from 0-to-1. This is a product-focused role, and you will be shipping regularly. You ideally have experience building early-stage products and are comfortable making technical trade-offs and taking risks
- Design our AI-enabled capabilities. We are building out a set of application capabilities on top of foundational models, and you will be critical to determining how we structure those for adaptability, reuse, and scalability
- Work with coaching to help translate coaching insights into AI Agents. Mento has a tremendous advantage in bringing AI coaching to life - an extremely strong team of active coaches. Part of this role will be figuring out how to translate coaching workflows into high-quality product experiences
- Build pipelines and integrations to import and export data into the product. Our product connects into a wide ecosystem of productivity and learning and development tools. You will help us design and build these integrations scalably and reusable
- Educate the team on best practices around data and AI. We have a small, fluid team filled with experts but not silos. As an expert bringing AI and data expertise, you will be expected to share your knowledge with the rest of the team via peer mentorship, code reviews, lunch and learns, and more
Requirements:
- Experience working with data to help build AI & software coaching products
- Experience building early-stage products
- Comfortable making technical trade-offs and taking risks
- Experience with server-side web applications
- Experience with event-driven architectures
- Experience with traditional web stacks like Ruby on Rails or Laravel
- Understanding of core data engineering and software architecture concepts for modern data-based applications
- Ability to design search indexes and set up data pipelines
- Experience integrating LLM-based coding tools into workflow
- Ability to operate well with ambiguity in an early-stage startup environment
- Experience shipping data-related products into production with real users
- Comfortable working in dynamic programming languages
- Excitement about integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into coaching platforms