Full Stack Engineer

Summary

Join Proton, a revolutionary AI-powered sales software company transforming the wholesale distribution industry, as a Senior Full Stack Engineer. You will be part of the AI Squad, designing and implementing full-stack features leveraging AI/ML capabilities to enhance our CRM platform. Collaborate with users, product managers, and ML engineers to create robust, scalable solutions integrating recommendation systems, personalization, and insight generation. This fully remote role, based in Europe or Latin America, offers a competitive salary ($60,000-$90,000), and reports to an Engineering Manager. The ideal candidate possesses strong full-stack engineering skills, database expertise, experience shipping AI features, and a startup mindset. Proton offers a flexible schedule, unlimited PTO, 10 company-paid holidays, 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave, biannual company-paid off-sites, and company stock options.

Requirements

• Strong full stack engineering skills: You have at least 5 years of experience as a software engineer with proven ability to work across the entire stack (frontend, backend, databases)
• Database expertise: You're experienced with designing efficient data structures and storage patterns to support AI-powered features. This includes proficiency in SQL databases, and cloud data warehousing technologies like BigQuery. You understand how to optimize schemas, queries, and indexing for performance with large datasets, implement effective caching strategies, and design data pipelines that support ML workflows
• Delivered AI features: You have successfully shipped ML/AI features to production. You understand basic ML concepts and tooling, their purpose and practical implications. You won’t be expected to be a Data Scientist, but you should know enough that allows you to work and coordinate within a Data Science team
• Startup mindset: You're pragmatic, nimble, and have a good record of shipping features, iterating fast, and working closely with users and PMs
• Strong software engineering skills: You have a proven track record of writing and deploying quality code at a senior level
• Problem-solving skills: You enjoy tackling difficult problems and can understand and take action on complex ideas quickly
• Independence: You take ownership of your work and thrive when given creative freedom. You like to experiment with new concepts and learn from mistakes
• Agility: You can adapt to new and interesting challenges in a fast-paced startup environment
• Team spirit: You recognize when you need support and are quick to support others when they need the same
• Communication skills: You can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Design and implement full stack features that integrate with our AI/ML systems
• Develop and maintain backend services in Python that support our AI-powered functionality
• Adapt responsive and intuitive frontend interfaces that showcase our AI capabilities
• Work with databases and design efficient data storage patterns for AI-related features
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate their models into production systems
• Ensure high performance, reliability, and scalability of the features you build
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to engineering best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior startup experience is required
• Interest in LLM tooling and APIs is a plus
• Familiarity with GCP is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive Salaries + Company Stock Options - we want to pay you well (and equitably!) and make you feel like an owner
• Flexible Schedule - we think high levels of autonomy, responsibility and working asynchronously foster an amazing workplace
• Unlimited PTO + 10 Company Paid Holidays - we even have tools implemented to detect burnout to make sure folks recharge regularly
• 12 Weeks Fully Paid Parental Leave - that goes for primary and secondary caregivers; even if you’re adopting or fostering!
• Biannual Company Paid off-sites - time for us to be together, brainstorm, and make magic happen