Founding Engineer (Backend) at Openmart

We are Openmart and we are creating the world’s largest live directory of local businesses. We help sales professionals query millions of unstructured business data like websites, product catalogs, reviews and socials.

Both of our founders are located in Foster City and we work in a loft where Richard lives in. Both of us have dogs and have a very dog-friendly office!

Team

Richard

• Richard was a senior software engineer at Cruise working on ML. Then joined as founding engineer at Graft, funded by NEA and GV where he trained and finetuned large-language models.

• Built an AI agent as weekend project that got on to GitHub trending projects Kathryn

• First product manager at Databento, which was funded by Redpoint venture which sells market data API’s.

• Previously was on various growth teams at Pinterest and ran hundreds of A/B testings.

• She also runs a DTC tea brand where she experienced the problem that led to the idea of Openmart We’ve known each other at Pinterest back in 2019 and have been good friends ever since. Openmart’s idea stems from our founder’s own pain points. Kathryn faced GTM challenges while launching her beverage brand trying to find great local business leads. Openmart is currently seeking an Founding AI Engineer with experience in search engine and AI agents. We are building a Google-like search engine for B2B unstructured data (similar to Perplexity) and seeking candidates with in-depth understanding of AI (LangChain, OSS models, tool/function calls, RAG, prompt-tuning, evals etc.)

Our team leader is innovative and supportive, fostering a culture of continuous learning and collaboration. They encourage open communication and provide regular feedback to help team members grow.

We expect the team to be in person at our Foster City office.

We are Openmart, dedicated to creating the world's largest real-time directory of local businesses. We assist sales professionals in querying millions of unstructured business data, including websites, product catalogs, reviews, and social media information. Openmart is backed by Y Combinator, execs at DoorDash, Square, Instacart, and top venture capital firms. If you are passionate about joining us, please get in touch.

• Opportunity to play a key role in a startup backed by top investors
• Solve real-world problems, improving business data querying and utilization through technology
• Work in a vibrant, innovation-driven environment, growing alongside a talented team
• Able to start fulltime immediately
• You are looking for high impact, high ownership role building something meaningful.
• Backend: Proficient in FastAPI/Django/Flask, Celery/RabbitMQ and Supabase/Postgres
• AI: Proficiency in Langchain, RAG, embeddings, multi-step AI agents, AI agent evals & finetune
• (Preferred) Search Algorithm Technology: Experience in search engine development, familiarity with re-ranking algorithms, embedding algorithms, fuzzy search, word2vec
• (Preferred) Startup Experience: Experience leading significant projects in startup environments =============

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• Semantic Search (Multi-stage re-ranking, embeddings, etc), we are building Google for B2B data
• AI Agents (LangChain, OSS models, tool/function calling, etc)
• We use Supabase as our DB, Python as our backend, NextJS as our frontend
• 15 min phone screen about your background
• 60 min technical phone interview (1 system design questions, 1 coding question)
• one take-home mini project/one-week work trial (RECOMMENDED!)
• 60 min culture fit interview with our founders