We are building a world-class search booking experience. In our vision of the world, you won’t book travel by opening ten tabs in Google Flights; you’ll book through a personalized AI assistant that understands everything about you and automatically arranges your trip for you.
We're looking for a founding engineer to join the our team of 3-4. You'll tackle everything from optimizing LLM performance and building evals to integrating APIs like Amadeus and Duffel. We have no shortage of customer interest and are bottlenecked entirely on product development. Your job will be to take customer feedback and improve our product, working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founder & the rest of founding team.
Bonus:
Our strongest candidates usually attended top schools (Berkeley, CMU, Waterloo, MIT) or worked at top companies.
We are a very small, close and ambitious team. We work in-person in San Francisco, five days a week out of an office in the Mission. We start at 10am and stay until the work is done—sometimes 7pm, sometimes midnight.
Our stack is a fairly standard setup of Postgres/FastAPI/Next. We wish we could write more Rust, but don’t often get the chance to.
We have unlimited vacation and a flexible travel policy. If you want to travel home and work remotely for a week, that’s cool as long as you’re still getting things done at a good pace (and tax/labor laws permit). We can’t provide fully hybrid or remote work arrangements.
Stardrift is an AI travel planner. We help our users find and book flights, hotels and activities for their vacations.
Salary
$125,000 - $175,000
Equity
1% - 3%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Leila Clark
Leila Clark
LinkedInNo applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.