Suede · 1 day ago
Founding Engineer
Greater Seattle Area
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $190K/yr
6+ years expSuede is an AI-powered platform designed for modern fashion brands and retailers, focusing on streamlining product creation and buying workflows. The role of Founding Engineer involves building the core product, working on data ingestion, backend services, and AI components to transform retail data into actionable insights.
Apparel & Fashion
Hiring Manager
Shama Keskar
Responsibilities
6–10 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong backend or full-stack experience (TypeScript/Node, Python, Next.js)
Expertise with AI models, LLMs, RAG pipelines, multimodal models, or agent-based workflows
Comfortable building integration-heavy systems and working with external APIs
Ability to take loosely defined problems and deliver production-ready solutions
Strong ownership, attention to detail, and iterative execution style
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/CGP/Azure), Postgres, and CI/CD
Qualification
Required
6–10 years of professional software engineering experience
Strong backend or full-stack experience (TypeScript/Node, Python, Next.js)
Expertise with AI models, LLMs, RAG pipelines, multimodal models, or agent-based workflows
Comfortable building integration-heavy systems and working with external APIs
Ability to take loosely defined problems and deliver production-ready solutions
Strong ownership, attention to detail, and iterative execution style
Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS/CGP/Azure), Postgres, and CI/CD
Preferred
Experience building Shopify apps or e-commerce integrations
Email ingestion, document parsing (PDF, images, attachments), or OCR pipelines
Background in retrieval systems, embedding models, or multimodal research/implementation
Prior early-stage startup or founding team experience
Benefits
High ownership and autonomy
Direct collaboration with founders
Opportunity to help define the early technical foundation
Growth potential as the team and product scale
In-person community at AI House in Seattle, with daily lunches, mentorship, and coaching.
Company
Suede
Suede is an AI-powered platform built for modern fashion brands and retailers.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase