About the role

As a Founding Engineer, your responsibility would be to help us build and scale our product from the ground up. You must be willing to bet on yourself and build expertise quickly.

We’re excited to welcome someone who has a strong startup mindset.

They get a kick from the type 2 fun from spending long hours on solving impossible tasks, they are willing to embrace ambiguity and be the live wire for the team during the lows, they are energetic and extremely passionate about what they’re building, and they are ready to go beyond the scope of their job responsibilities and do what it takes to win.

They like to have FUN at work.

We spend more than 2/3rds of the day working towards a shared vision. We are looking for someone who derives joy from their work. It’s not just another job to make ends meet. There’s more to it. They want to come to work to have fun, learn, innovate, argue, and more! They are curious, impatient to learn, opinionated, and excited about making a dent in the world.

They are a strong cultural fit.

We are building a team that values people and leads with optimism. We believe in honest, open conversations, resolving conflicts proactively, and giving space to communicate opinions without judgment. We have a strong culture of appreciation, celebrations, and learning. We trust each other to be experts in what we own. We have each other’s backs especially when things go south. We’re playing the long game. Your passion and motivation are important to us.

Skills:

• Full-stack development experience
  • You have designed, developed, and maintained full-stack web applications
  • You have developed high-performance, high-throughput backend services
  • You have worked in production environments and have been on on-call rotations
• Data experience
  • You have experience working with MapReduce frameworks like Spark and processing large datasets
  • You can think analytically and have performed and analyzed A/B tests
  • You have experience building and deploying machine-learning models
  • You have experience building complex recommendation systems
• Cloud architecture experience
  • You have experience working with cloud services and have designed and maintained cloud architectures
• Stewardship
  • You have experience as a tech lead or an OSS maintainer. You can make high-quality technical decisions
  • You can handle production issues and think clearly under pressure
  • You have experience designing and maintaining complex product features
• Leadership
  • You communicate bottlenecks quickly and resolve differences proactively
  • You work with the team to break down problems and evaluate pros and cons effectively
  • You are a team player and like to understand the context of the product and customers beyond engineering
• Traits
  • You obsess with data and enjoy optimization challenges
  • You are excited about high-stakes projects and delivering for real customers
  • You excel in chaotic environments

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of industry experience in full-stack development, data engineering, or machine learning.
• Strong proficiency in either frontend or backend languages. Preferred frontend language is Typescript (NextJS is a plus), and preferred backend language is anything that is strongly typed (Java, Scala, Rust).
• Proficiency in SQL and understanding of database design. (PySpark is a plus)
• Hands-on experience with cloud and auth platforms (e.g., AWS, Cloudflare, Clerk) and DevOps practices.
• Experience with A/B experimentation, ML modeling, and deployments

Why Join Us:

• Grow and learn 10X faster compared to big-tech
• Be a part of the founding team that’s shaping the future of AI+Growth.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and solve complex problems.
• Get first-hand experience in building 0-1 startups alongside founders.
• Be involved in critical decision-making to sustain and scale businesses.

About just words

Marketing isn't "just words" -- It's about understanding your core customers and speaking their language, and it is an important lever for growth. However, the reality is that marketing teams get bogged down by organizational and operational inefficiencies, and they struggle to keep up with their users’ needs. That’s why we’re building Just Words, an AI-first marketing copilot that automatically optimizes your marketing campaigns and hyper-personalizes marketing content at scale.

Our mission is to build an AI that can handle day-to-day marketing operations like coming up with new campaigns and designing compelling emails and notifications that resonate with each user, but our core vision is to make marketing feel more like a conversation than “content.”