
Founding Engineer (Fullstack/AI) at Qode. Role overview. Our small product squad (2 fullstack engineers + PM) ships quickly, but customer demand is growing faster than we can build. We’re looking for a senior, product‐minded engineer who can wear many hats — architecture, data, fine-tuning & RAG, with a bit of product taste and help lay the technical and cultural foundations of the company.. What you’ll do. ● Own features end‐to‐end: design, build, ship, and iterate on backend services, web front‐end, and internal tooling.. ● Scale our gen‐AI stack: productionize retrieval‐augmented generation pipelines, implement evaluation harnesses, and harden monitoring/alerting.. ● Shape engineering culture: introduce best‐in‐class CI/CD, code quality standards, security, and mentoring practices.. ● Collaborate: work with product and sales to translate real patient pain points into elegant solutions.. ● Influence roadmap: participate in product discovery, weigh technical trade‐o s, and keep us focused on what moves the needle.. Required technical skills. Our core technologies: . Python, Postgres, MySQL, NextJS, LangSmith, AWS. . We’re flexible—use the right tool for the job.. ● 5. + years building and operating production software.. ● U.S. work authorization & residency required.. ● Proven experience shipping LLM or conversational‐AI products at scale . (LLM-APIs, vector stores, agent frameworks). ● Proficiency in Python and modern JS; familiarity with SQL and schema design.. ● Comfort with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) and IaC.. ● Working knowledge of agents, vector search, embeddings, and RAG performance . tuning.. ● Product taste: you sweat the UX details.. ● Good communication skills; you can explain complex trade‐o. s to non‐engineers.. Nice-to-haves:. ● Prior healthcare experience.. ● Understanding of HIPAA, SOC‐2, or other security/compliance frameworks.. ● Performance and cost‐optimization of ML workloads.. Compensation & benefits. ● 401k match. ● Remote-first culture (US only). ● Opportunity to shape the technical and cultural foundation of the company. Company Location: United States.