About the role
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Build and Ship:
- Own and deliver critical product initiatives end-to-end.
- Write high-quality code across frontend and backend systems.
- Take ideas from concept to production and drive measurable impact.
Architecture and Technical Leadership:
- Define scalable architectures and technical direction.
- Make pragmatic decisions balancing speed, reliability, and maintainability.
- Identify and address scaling, performance, and security challenges early.
Quality and Reliability:
- Ensure systems are resilient, observable, and production-ready.
- Drive engineering excellence through strong testing, monitoring, and operational practices.
- Champion simplicity and long-term maintainability.
Product and Ownership:
- Work closely with product, design, and customers to solve real business problems.
- Own outcomes rather than just implementation.
- Drive execution in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
AI-Native Engineering:
- Use AI extensively to accelerate development, debugging, testing, and technical decision-making.
- Help define best practices for AI-enabled software development at Jodo.
Requirements:
- 4+ years.
- Strong hands-on experience in Go and Python.
- Startup background.
- Proven experience building products/systems from scratch.
- Strong ownership and ability to drive initiatives independently.
- A strong builder who has shipped products used by real customers.
- Comfortable working across the stack (Python, Go and JavaScript) and owning features from idea to production.
- Strong grasp of system design, APIs, data flows, reliability, and scalable architectures.
- Uses AI extensively to code, debug, test, and move faster.
- High ownership, strong product sense, and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment.