[Hiring] Junior Software Engineer @Untamed Intelligence

Role Description

As a Junior Software Engineer, you will build real, learner-facing parts of the platform from your first few weeks, with support and review.

• You will work day to day with our Senior Software Engineer, who will review your work and be your first line of help.
• You will also sit close to the Director of Learning and the Director of Product Management.
• On a team this small, there is no layer between you and the people deciding what the product should be, so you will be in those conversations early, and you are expected to have opinions in them.
• With Learning, you will implement the machinery behind the learning model: competencies, knowledge graphs, learner state, agent behavior, and assessment.
• You will not be defining that model, but you should understand the reasoning behind what you are building well enough to notice when the code and the intent have come apart.
• With Product Management, you will take defined work through to something running, and raise scope questions, edge cases, and problems with a spec while they are still cheap to fix.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features. Build learner-facing experiences and the services behind them, take them through review, and see them into production.
• Work on AI systems. Implement and improve teaching, assessment, feedback, and content-authoring capabilities, including prompts, agent behavior, and the plumbing around them.
• Test what you build. Write tests, build evaluations, and check your own work against real behavior before asking anyone else to look at it.
• Debug and maintain. Chase down failures in a system you did not entirely write, and leave the code better than you found it.
• Use AI, and stay accountable for it. Use AI tools throughout your work, and hold what they produce to the standard of something you would have written yourself.
• Learn deliberately. Take review seriously, ask for the reasoning behind decisions, and grow toward owning larger pieces of the system.

Qualifications

• This is an early-career role, and we mean it. We expect you to need support, ask questions, and get things wrong while you learn the system.
• You have built real things: personal projects, internships, coursework taken well past the assignment, open-source contributions, a startup that went nowhere.
• Solid fundamentals. You know your way around data structures, algorithms, and how a web application actually fits together.
• Real fluency with AI development tools. You use tools like Codex or Claude Code as a matter of course.
• You understand what you ship. You can explain your code, including the parts a model wrote.
• Curiosity that goes past the ticket. You want to know why the system is built the way it is.
• Directness. You communicate openly, ask for help before a problem becomes a blocker, and acknowledge when you are stuck.
• Interest in the problem. You care about education, or you are ready to.

Helpful, but not required

• Experience with TypeScript, Node.js, Svelte, or another modern web framework.
• Exposure to PostgreSQL, vector search, knowledge graphs, or event-driven systems.
• Any experience with learning platforms, education, assessment, accessibility, or multilingual products.
• A degree in computer science or a related field.

How to apply

We’d like to see more than a résumé. Give us a sense of how you think, build, test, and learn. Show us something you’ve built through a personal project, internship, coursework, open-source contribution, or another experience.

Don’t treat that as a checklist. We’re much more interested in genuine evidence of your curiosity, resourcefulness, and willingness to learn than in a polished application package. If the role interests you but you are unsure whether you meet every qualification, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional details

• Location: Remote
• Reporting to: CTO/Chief AI Officer
• Role type: Full-time
• Compensation: $160,000–$200,000, plus benefits