Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Mento, a career technology company, as a Senior Software Engineer to build an impactful AI & software coaching product. You will be part of a small, collaborative engineering team working closely with design and coaching to create a unique product experience. This product-focused role involves building features from scratch, designing AI capabilities, translating coaching insights into AI agents, and building data pipelines and integrations. You will also educate the team on best practices around data and AI. Mento offers a remote-first work environment, competitive salary and equity, and various benefits.

Requirements

• Be a software engineer with experience shipping data-related products into production with real users - we’re currently not looking for new grads
• Be comfortable working in dynamic programming languages and have experience with server-side web applications
• Have an understanding of core data engineering and software architecture concepts for modern data-based applications

Responsibilities

• Build features and experiences from 0-to-1. This is a product-focused role, and you will be shipping regularly. You ideally have experience building early-stage products and are comfortable making technical trade-offs and taking risks
• Design our AI-enabled capabilities. We are building out a set of application capabilities on top of foundational models, and you will be critical to determining how we structure those for adaptability, reuse, and scalability
• Work with coaching to help translate coaching insights into AI Agents. Mento has a tremendous advantage in bringing AI coaching to life - an extremely strong team of active coaches. Part of this role will be figuring out how to translate coaching workflows into high-quality product experiences
• Build pipelines and integrations to import and export data into the product. Our product connects into a wide ecosystem of productivity and learning and development tools. You will help us design and build these integrations scalably and reusable
• Educate the team on best practices around data and AI. We have a small, fluid team filled with experts but not silos. As an expert bringing AI and data expertise, you will be expected to share your knowledge with the rest of the team via peer mentorship, code reviews, lunch and learns, and more

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience with event-driven architectures as well as traditional web stacks like Ruby on Rails or Laravel
• Have opinions on things like designing search indexes and the right way to set up data pipelines
• Have figured out how to productively integrate LLM-based coding tools (things like cursor, cody, etc) into your flow
• Operate well with some ambiguity

Benefits

• Fully Remote - ability to work from anywhere with bi-annual team offsites
• Competitive salary and equity
• Medical, dental, vision, and a 401k plan
• Unlimited vacation (We actually mean this! it's important to keep yourself fresh)
• $500 home office stipend
• Access to your own Mento Coach