Ruby on Rails Dev - AI Agent | Earn equity

Zipchat
Full-time
Remote
Europe
$70,000 - $100,000 USD yearly

About us

  • We’re building an agentic commerce platform - Zipchat.ai
  • We work with hundreds of brands, 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 💎
    • Hotwire ⚡️
    • 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
    • Can balance shipping fast with shipping good
  • Time & Place 
    • Fully remote 🏡
    • EU work hours ( must be within 3 hour diff of CET )


What you’ll be doing

  • Coming up with ideas on how to improve the customer experience & agent performance
  • Building new versions of the agent and testing them against the default
  • Implementing new agent abilities
  • Building new merchant UI to manage agent settings
  • Improving scraping, data collection & storage


Why join

  • Be part of enabling the “Agentic commerce” era
  • 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 startup with 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 small team 
    • We’re a team of 8, half is tech
    • You’ll be working alongside the tech founder and a dev lead
  • You have the freedom to work however you like 
    • We’re fully remote
    • There’s no strict working time ( CET is our anchor )
  • 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 )
    • Nobody will babysit you, you’ll need to get things done or ask for help proactively


Compensation

  • $70,000-$100,000 ( 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
  • 2hr dev session 
    • You’ll be presented with a real-life scenario
    • You have 2 hours to work on it with a screen recorder
    • We’ll review the footage & project afterwards
  • Recap call
  • Contract sign