Senior Ruby on Rails Developer #2 for an AI-first CRM (B2B SaaS) — founded by two serial entrepreneurs (US Inc w/ Stock Options Program)

About us

I’m Thomas, co-founder of Vendis — an AI-native B2B CRM. We’re post-MVP, onboarding our first paying customers, and hiring employee #2.

My co-founder Sebastian and I are repeat founders/CTOs and active angel investors. We’ve been coding and shipping Rails since 2008 (Rails 2.1).

With Vendis, we’re modernizing CRM with natural inputs (voice/chat) and AI that drives data entry + admin to near-zero so sales teams can actually sell. The opportunity is massive: every company that sells anything eventually needs a CRM.

Stack

• Rails 8 · Hotwire (low-JS) · ViewComponents · Tailwind 4 · AWS · DynamoDB · OpenSearch · Vector Databases · LLM APIs (greenfield, zero legacy).

What you’ll do

• Design and scale a multi-tenant Rails app from day one.
• Work across backend and product UI (Rails + Stimulus only, low-JS).
• Keep the UI minimal — AI-magic over feature bloat.
• Shape architecture, infra, and product with the founders; ship fast to prod.

What you’ve done

• 5+ years shipping production-grade Rails.
• Hands-on with at least one non-relational DB and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Practical experience integrating AI/LLM/RAG + Tooling (e.g. Langfuse) and solid AWS tooling know-how.
• You thrive in tiny, senior teams; high autonomy, high output.

Culture & how we work

• Tiny senior A-team (3 engineers incl. founders).
• Small by design: We believe Vendis addresses a huge market opportunity - no matter of that we like to work with a small tight knit team instead of skyrockening our headcount.
• No managers, no titles: you code or you sell. We scale with code, AI automation, and distribution — not layers of management.
• Values: Ownership · Pragmatism · Tempo · Kindness · No Ego. MINASWAN.
• Remote-first/only, async; fast iteration; we live and breathe AI (including for coding — see Tobi Lüttke’s memo).

Compensation

• Base: €80k–€100k (DOE/location). We'll conduct a comp review after funding rounds (angel/VC) to re-benchmark early hires to market.
• Equity: meaningful stock options (Delaware C-Corp).
• Perks: Remote, flexible time off, modern toolchain; small team, big impact.

Hiring process

Founder call → code walkthrough (yours and ours)→ 4h remote pairing → quick decision.
More Information: https://vendis.ai/jobs/