ZipChat
AI RAG engineer, Ruby on Rails | Earn equity
đ 100% RemoteFull-Time
Posted April 8, 2025
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.
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
Help us maintain the quality of jobs posted on RemoteAfrica.
Is this job not remote? Read More
Let us know!