ZipChat: AI RAG engineer, Ruby on Rails | Earn equity

Headquarters: Delaware, USA URL: https://zipchat.ai About us We’re building an AI agent for e-commerce - Zipchat.ai We believe the LLM revolution will change the way humanity shops. We’re trying to figure out how exactly. We work with hundreds of brands, we’re bootstrapped, we’re default-alive and we’re focused on innovating in the AI/Ecom space. We have a Shopify app, a Whatsapp app but we’re building on top of open standards so we can support all kind of merchants. Ideal candidate Experience building RAG AI agents:  LLM experience ( OpenAI, Anthropic, etc ) Retrieval ( embeddings / vector dbs ) Prompt engineering Dev skills  Ruby on Rails ???? - We run on rails Python ????  - Some useful libs require Python Experience with Web scraping & data storage Communication  English ???????????????????????????? - able to communicate without friction Proactivity - able to communicate issues proactively, unstuck themselves and work as a team Mindset  Ownership - wants to take responsibility Innovation - can come up with ideas on improving the agent Embrace the chaos - prioritise shipping value to customers, not clean code. Make your mama proud, not your fellow dev buddies! ???? What you’ll be doing You’ll be in charge of improving our Agent performance/experience metrics and you’ll be judged by how much the agent improves over time. Coming up with ideas on how to improve the customer experience & agent performance Building new versions of the agent and testing them against the status quo Implementing new agent capabilities Improving scraping, data collection & storage Why join Chance to invent how e-commerce works in the AI age Get equity in the business Freedom to build things your own way See your impact real time → fast feedback loop Be part of a small bootstrapped startup that has high ambitions Why not join We’re not a very social type of workplace - everyone works in their own lane and we sync ad/hoc You’ll be expected to ship Work process We try to push to prod every day.  We take “Ship fast and break things” to heart. Also “monitor your own stuff and make sure you fix things if you break something” ???? Innovation velocity is our number one priority. We have no idea what will be useful to merchants and what won’t be, so we try to ship → collect feedback → ship → etc We’re a micro team  We’re currently 3 founders, one of them is technical. You’ll be working alongside the tech founder. You have the freedom to work however you like  We’re fully remote There’s no working time ( CET is our anchor time ) You’re expected to spend ~30 productive hours* per week on the project Nobody cares if you moonlight, have a side hustle or you like to surf during the day - just do your job You will be writing code 99% of the time, no bureaucracy  We have no meetings unless necessary ( async chat or loom is preferred ) We have no planning, no deadlines, no sprints, and no methodologies → We take the next task and try to ship it ASAP You figure things out, no babysitting  You’ll need to come up with ways to improve the agent You’ll be presented with “shaped”** features ( not too concrete, not too vague specs ) You’ll need to figure out how to build them following our product philosophy Nobody will babysit you, you’ll need to get things done or ask for help proactively *Productive work hours - Hours spent actually working. We use Toggl to track our time. **Shaped features - See https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.1-chapter-02) Compensation $6k per month ( $72,000 / year ) ( before tax ) Stock options ( Delaware C-corp ) Application process Submit form Get to know you call ( 30-60 min ) See if we like each other and if might be a good fit or not 2 week paid contract ( $2k )  We believe the only way to see if we’re a good fit is to do some work together We’ll hire you for 2 weeks, see what we can achieve together After, both sides can decide if they wish to continue working Contract sign To apply: https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/zipchat-ai-rag-engineer-ruby-on-rails-earn-equity