Founding Engineer

Key Skills:

• Machine Learning
• Full Stack Web Development

About Us:
Promi is transforming ecommerce pricing by leveraging AI to personalize discounts. Our platform calculates and optimizes discounts in real time, giving each customer the precise pricing nudge they need to convert. We are a team of two intellectually curious and driven founders who prioritize a collaborative, low-ego, transparent, and meritocratic work environment. We'll push you to think, and expect you to do the same for us.

We are looking for a talented and passionate founding engineer to join our dynamic team, with curiosity, adaptability, and a strong sense of ownership. As the very first hire in our growing, YCombinator-backed startup, this is a unique opportunity to have unparalleled impact on the trajectory of our high-growth startup and contribute to the development of next-generation AI-powered technologies.

Role Overview:
As a Founding Engineer, you will be a core part of all sides of Promi. You will work closely with us on a daily basis to improve our model architecture, engineer new features, build new integrations, ship app updates, and more. You will wear many hats and truly have exposure to all sides of the business, even non-technical areas such as sales, design, product, etc. We are a collaborative team. Expect to be a part of the decision making process and form thoughts and opinions on areas outside of your typical domain. This is a high-risk, high-reward position that provides an unparalleled learning opportunity for those of you looking to start a company in the future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Machine Learning Model Development:
  • Design, develop, and train machine learning models for a variety of use cases (e.g., predicting customer price elasticity).
  • Fine-tune models using advanced techniques, including deep learning, reinforcement learning, and transfer learning.
  • Evaluate model performance and iterate to improve accuracy, scalability, and efficiency.
• Data Engineering & Pipeline Development:
  • Build and maintain data pipelines to ingest, preprocess, and clean data from multiple sources (structured and unstructured).
  • Implement robust ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes and automate data workflows.
  • Collaborate with data engineers to ensure data quality and availability for model training and inference.
• Full Stack Application Development:
  • Develop and maintain the back-end infrastructure for machine learning applications
  • Build interactive front-end interfaces for our merchant-facing app, including dashboards, discount creation tools, and discount management tools.
  • Develop new integrations with other applications to support new features and onboard additional merchants
• Collaboration, Strategy, and Roadmapping:
  • Work closely with the founders to help inform our product roadmap and long-term business strategy. You will wear many hats, and as such expect to weigh in on many broad areas of the business

Required Qualifications:

• Strong background in Machine Learning
  • Experience in building and deploying models at large scale in production
  • Experience in development algorithms in areas such as optimization, model architecture and data centric optimizations
• Experience in building complex and large scale data pipelines
  • Promi constantly deals with large amounts of ever-growing structured and unstructured data
• Be very comfortable with frontend development
  • Typescript, well known libraries such as Nextjs, Remix. NodeJS.
• Adaptability
  • Fast learner on new technologies, thrive in a dynamic environment, and embrace evolving requirements

Why Promi?

• Experience growing a company from the ground up: As one of our first hires, you will see the growth of our company from all angles. This is the perfect opportunity for engineers who want to one day become a founder.
• Growth Opportunities: You will have the opportunity to quickly take on more responsibility and eventually build your own team
• Collaborative Culture: Work with talented and driven individuals who share a passion for technology and innovation.
• Competitive Compensation: Enjoy a competitive salary and flexible work arrangements, Promi is three days per week in our bay area office.

Promi is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.