Software Engineer

## About the role PathPilot is on a mission to help millions of people unlock their potential by navigating and optimizing their careers through the power of AI. With 7-figures in non-dilutive funding and strong ecosystem partnerships, we're building an AI Career Companion that helps people clarify goals, discover opportunities, and grow through personalized support. We're looking for a Software Engineer to help us build, scale, and refine the core product experience behind PathPilot. You'll work closely with the founding team to design and ship reliable, user-centric software, turning powerful AI capabilities into intuitive, production-ready features that people actually love using. This role is ideal for a strong full-stack or backend-leaning engineer who enjoys shipping product, thinking in systems, and working in fast-moving environments where ownership and impact matter. ## What we offer - Build meaningful, user-facing software that directly impacts people's careers - Work closely with the founder and early engineering leadership - Ship real features quickly in an AI-native product environment - Collaborate with a small, senior team that values velocity and clarity - Use modern tooling (including AI coding tools like Cursor or Aider) to move faster - Enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and a remote-friendly work culture - Help shape the future of AI-powered career products backed by strong funding and partners ## Responsibilities - Build and ship core product features across the PathPilot platform - Design and implement backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript - Contribute to frontend development using React and modern UI patterns - Integrate AI-powered features and workflows into the product experience - Work with data models, user context, and application state to enable personalization - Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code - Collaborate closely with product, design, and AI engineering partners - Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability over time - Help evolve engineering standards, tooling, and development workflows - Prioritize shipping user value without compromising long-term quality ## How you will spend your time - 45% product engineering (frontend and backend feature development) - 20% system design and technical refinement - 15% AI feature integration and experimentation - 10% testing, reliability, and performance improvements - 10% collaboration, planning, and iteration ## First 30 days - Get familiar with the PathPilot codebase, product, and workflows - Ship small but meaningful improvements to the product - Pair with the founding engineering team on feature development - Build context around users and product priorities ## First 90 days - Own and ship larger product features end-to-end - Improve reliability or performance of core systems - Contribute to frontend and backend architectural decisions - Collaborate closely with product on iteration and feedback loops ## First 180 days - Take ownership of major areas of the product - Help scale systems to support growing users and B2B pilots - Establish patterns and best practices other engineers can follow - Mentor new contributors as the engineering team grows ## Requirements - Have 3-5 years of professional software engineering experience - Are comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks - Have experience building backend APIs and services (Python and Node.js preferred) - Have worked with frontend frameworks like React - Understand software engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, code reviews) - Think in systems and care about scalability and maintainability - Are comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments - Enjoy collaborating cross-functionally and owning your work - Use AI tools to improve your productivity, not replace fundamentals ## Nice to have - Built SaaS products used by real users - Worked in early-stage startups or 0→1 environments - Integrated LLMs or AI APIs into production software - Worked with databases like Postgres, Supabase, or similar - Have experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) ## About the company PathPilot is on a mission to help millions of people unlock their potential by navigating and optimizing their careers through the power of AI. With 7-figures in non-dilutive funding and strong ecosystem partnerships, we're building an AI Career Companion that helps people clarify goals, discover opportunities, and grow through personalized support. ## Hiring process - Intro Call – Align on mission, role expectations, and goals - Async Exercise – A small, product-focused technical task - Technical Interview – Deep dive into your approach and trade-offs - Final Conversation – Alignment with the founder on vision and culture - Offer – We move quickly and transparently