Onton · 2 months ago
Founding Staff Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$175K/yr - $240K/yr
8+ years expOnton is a company focused on helping people make decisions they love instantly. The Founding Staff Software Engineer will play a crucial role in setting the strategic foundation for the Engineering Team while designing and deploying user-critical features across the tech stack.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)E-CommerceImage RecognitionMachine LearningProduct SearchSearch Engine
Responsibilities
Join Onton as a Founding Engineer and set the strategic foundation for our Engineering Team
Design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features
Work with a dynamic team of other engineers, AI researchers, and product designers tackling cutting-edge problems to create a seamless, cohesive experience for users
Build across every layer of the stack — web app, container, infrastructure, etc
Stay up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system, yourself, and the rest of the team
Qualification
Required
8+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in fast-scaling companies
Be a self-directed generalist, capable of picking up any engineering problem and solving it, no matter how tedious
Quickly and iteratively ship code that is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable
Exercise exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
Preferred
Enjoy giving high-level abstractions low-level performance
Have functional programming experience. If not, no problem; motivated engineers learn it quickly
Have worked with NLP and ML models before and understand their capabilities and limitations
Benefits
Relocation compensation
Company
Onton
Onton is an e-commerce search engine that uses knowledge graphs and language models.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$9.3MKey Investors
Footwork
2025-11-26Seed· $7.5M
2023-10-03Pre Seed· $1.8M
Leadership Team
Alex Gunnarson
Co-Founder
Zach Hudson
Co-Founder
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