Product Genius · 5 days ago
Full-stack/Back-end Technical Staff for MIT/DARPA AI Startup - Remote Role (Senior or Staff)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expProduct Genius is a seed-stage startup focused on cutting-edge AI technology. The role involves collaborating to develop new features, contributing to the realtime learning engine, and working on APIs and data pipelines that enhance customer outcomes.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Online PortalsSoftware
Responsibilities
Collaborate to prioritize, prototype, and ship new features that directly improve our product and customer outcomes
Contribute directly to the realtime learning engine at the core of the business
Work on the APIs and data pipelines that link live user behavior to our self-learning systems
Communicate and explain technical concepts, decisions, and trade-offs to others, including non-engineers
Champion practices that safely accelerate the team, including enhanced AI coding, streamlined CI/CD, and improved QA
Own what you ship. Dig into logs and traces, identify root causes, and improve our testing apparatus to minimize issues
Have autonomy. At Product Genius, we don’t hand down tasks - we share context. Engineers are trusted with strategic information and the freedom to make decisions that shape the product and platform
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience building and maintaining production applications
Familiarity with building agentic systems at scale
AI/web application expertise - APIs, databases, async processing, testing, git, CI/CD, and performance optimization
You are comfortable picking up any language. (We usually use Python, SQL, TypeScript, and React.)
You can jump into a complex code base and rapidly absorb it. You are comfortable managing multiple parallel Claude code instances
You are collaborative at the abstract level, and self-sufficient at the code level
Strong math or analytical background. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
Preferred
You like testing new tools and frameworks - you're the person who spins up a newly released prototype just to see what's possible
You've run an LLM on your local machine before just for fun
You have exposure to containerization and orchestration tooling (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GCP)
Experience with ClickHouse queries and optimization
Benefits
Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
401k retirement fund with matching contributions
Work-at-home office reimbursement benefit
Excellent paid time off
Company
Product Genius
Delivering 20% More Revenue in 20 Days for E-Commerce Stores
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Ben Vigoda
Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Chief Scientist
Recent News
2026-01-14
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