extend · 1 day ago
Growth Engineer
Extend is building a modern document processing platform aimed at transforming how the world interacts with unstructured data. They are seeking a Growth Engineer to join their founding team, focusing on technical distribution and developing projects that enhance developer engagement and drive product adoption.
Software
Responsibilities
Build public-facing technical projects (e.g. OCR Arena (ocrarena.ai), benchmarks, demos, microsites)
Design and run benchmarks for document processing (accuracy, latency, cost, tradeoffs)
Ship technical demos, reference implementations, and eval harnesses
Write production-quality code across the stack
Own projects from idea → build → launch → iteration
Instrument experiments and tie them back to adoption and revenue impact
Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and GTM
Move fast, test aggressively, and kill ideas that don’t work
Qualification
Required
Strong engineering fundamentals and experience shipping real systems
Comfort working across the stack (frontend, backend, infra, data)
Experience with APIs, datasets, evals, or developer tooling
Background in high-growth startups or highly ambiguous environments
Ability to communicate clearly with a technical audience
High agency and velocity
Strong technical taste (signal > noise)
A founder mentality — no task is beneath you
Obsession with outcomes, not activity
Preferred
Built tools, benchmarks, or demos that became externally useful
Written technical content grounded in systems you actually built
Shipped side projects that attracted real developer usage or attention
Worked at the intersection of product, engineering, and growth
Company
extend
Extend is an artificial intelligence company that transforms documents into structured data using LLMs.
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (6)
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2023 (7)
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$17.5MKey Investors
Innovation EndeavorsY Combinator
2025-06-17Series A· $17M
2023-04-05Pre Seed· $0.5M
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