[Hiring] SWE (LATM) @AfterQuery

Role Description

As one of our Latin American engineers, you’ll be critical in creating data infrastructure that will be shaping the future development of frontier models. You will get a lot of responsibility, owning entire projects end-to-end – meaning you can see your impact instantly.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable systems, focusing on our AfterQuery Experts site
• Collaborate across research, product, and design to ship features quickly without sacrificing quality
• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions
• Solve real-world scalability and reliability challenges
• Contribute to the core infrastructure powering data and evaluation for the world's leading AI labs

Qualifications

• Ideally 5+ years of experience
• Strong coding fundamentals in Node.js and TypeScript, Python, and/or Go
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and system design
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, and NoSQL databases
• Ability to reason about trade-offs and balance speed versus reliability under pressure
• Active GitHub with real projects demonstrating you are a builder at heart
• Works autonomously and collaboratively without burning out under heavy load
• Proactive, identifies problems and drives solutions without being told to
• High-output and high-accountability mindset, can work banker hours when needed
• Strong bias toward delivering simple solutions to complex problems
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Can clearly and compellingly articulate why they want to join a startup and work in AI now

Preferred Qualifications

• Background as a founding engineer at a high-growth startup
• Ex-founder of a technically sophisticated and complex product
• Has trialed or succeeded in past fast-paced startup roles with strong references