About the role
Rilla engineers architect and ship features across the stack at lightning speed. On a daily basis, you will build end-to-end workflows, take them to production, and solve real world problems across an out-sized scale.
As an early technical steward, you will raise the bar for code quality and decision‑making, setting patterns that cement a world‑class engineering culture as we scale. While the company 10×’s, your scope and ownership will grow just as fast—building the tools, mental models, and platforms that let both you and Rilla accelerate exponentially.
Do you describe yourself as "obsessive"? Do you aspire to be a founder or a leader in applying AI to the physical world? We believe Rilla is the best place — with the best peers — to learn how.
Technologies We Use
- Different languages and frameworks, including React, React Native, Typescript and Python
- Open-source technologies like Node.js, PostgreSQL, Turborepo, Lodash, and Zod
- Industry-standard build tooling, including GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Spacelift
What We Value
- An infinite learner. Someone who is relentless in their curiosity.
- A customer obsessive. Someone who deeply care about delighting customers and solving real pains, not vanity metrics.
- A winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback.
- Extreme empathy. Our customers are not tech companies. They live and work in the real world. Empathy is critical to arriving at correct solutions.
- Unafraid of failure. You take risks. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time. In a weird way, you trick your brain into being excited when you fail, because it means you got a new opportunity to learn more.
About Rilla
Rilla is on a mission to index the offline world.
85% of commerce in America happens offline. Every month, 10 billion face-to-face conversations happen between salespeople and customers, and until Rilla, none of them were captured. Our AI sales coaching platform captures those conversations and gives every business the same customer intelligence that Google and Amazon have online.
Customers see a 10 to 30% lift in sales after deploying Rilla. Reps get daily coaching from every conversation, not just the occasional ride-along. Enterprises get 100% visibility into the information that helps them drive their business.
Backed by: Google Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Crew Capital, Broom Ventures.
Customers: Over 2,000 companies use Rilla, including The Home Depot, Kohler, LG, KKR, PulteGroup, and Neighborly.
Engineering culture:
- No product managers. Engineers own product end-to-end.
- You talk to customers directly through advisory boards and informal conversations.
- Ownership from day one. Small teams, no layers.
What you'll build: Imagine joining OpenAI in 2022, or Google before it was Google. That's the window you have with Rilla right now. We are a multi-product company with a ton of opportunity to grow, whether that's in audio processing, the infrastructure layers, or the consumer-facing mobile app and products that many people interact with. You can learn more about specific products through the interview process.
How we operate: We run Rilla like a high-speed reinforcement learner. Ship fast, fail fast, learn fast, ship again.
We are fully in-office at a brand new penthouse spot at 25 Kent in Brooklyn. We have never hired an outside senior executive. Every leader started as an IC and grew into their role.
Who thrives here: Engineers who want to own product end-to-end, talk to customers directly, and build without PM layers. Engineers who care about real-world impact more than novelty. Engineers who are excited about building products with real utility and making them as seamless and as fun to use as possible.
Required skills
Job details
Salary
$192,500 - $258,000
Location
New York, United States
Experience
2+ years
Funding
Total raised
$60M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
Sebastian Jimenez
CEO
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.