Build and scale an AI-powered paywall editor used by millions: implement Next.js frontend and high-performance Python backend, integrate LLMs and APIs, deploy services globally, collaborate with founders and customers, and own features end-to-end.
What You’ll Do
What We’re Looking For
Nice To Haves
Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit
Requirements
Our stack:
- You will be building an AI paywall editor that serves millions of customers everyday, including touching the front-end Next.js application and back-end high performance Python server.
- Integrating the latest coding models, APIs, and techniques into the editor to improve generation performance.
- Writing and deploying Python code that serves hundreds and thousands of requests each second globally.
- Work cross functionally with the founders, and directly with customers, to design, implement, and deliver the best experiences!
- Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.
- Keen problem solving skills: you are able to cut down ambiguous problems down to first principles and deliver a working solution.
- Strong programming/full-stack foundation: You’re comfortable working on both backend code as well as frontend React code.
- Experience working directly on user-facing products: you are able to figure out and understand what the user needs, including talking to customers
- Stellar cross-functional communication skills: you are able to adapt to our ways of working and be an efficient/effective communicator.
- Owning features end to end: you’ll write your own PRDs/quick specs when necessary, and you test your features end to end to make sure they work and satisfy the requirements
- Experience with ML/AI/LLM integration in applications
- Background working with design tools, chat experiences, or vibe coding tools
- Previous experience founding or working at a high-growth startup
- Mobile engineering/mobile experience is a plus
- You’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, or need super structured requirements
- You prefer to only one part of the stack, and aren’t willing to work across everything
- You’ve never worked on systems with many moving parts: Our software has many different moving parts that you will be required to ramp up on
You have 1-4+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping real products.
This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco - we work from the office 6 days a week (Mon-Sat)
You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.
We require US work authorization, but are open to O-1 visa sponsorship for truly exceptional candidates.
- Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand
- Tailwind/Shadcn
- Supabase
- Python/Fly.io
- Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo
Helium San Francisco, California, USA Office
San Francisco, CA, United States
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