Senior Fullstack Engineer - Python

About Us

At Synquery, we're revolutionizing the way human expert insight data is utilized. Backed by top VCs like Afore Capital and Caesar Ventures, our AI-enabled expertise platform streamlines connections between clients and experts, delivering insights with unprecedented speed, precision, and cost efficiency. We're not just another marketplace—we're crafting a platform tailored for the next generation of AI models, enabling seamless access to expertise data.

At Synquery, we value a collaborative and innovative environment where each team member plays a vital role in shaping the future of AI-driven experiences. Our product roadmap includes AI training modules, synthetic expert personas, and an advanced suite of generative AI tools. Having recently launched our MVP, we are currently piloting it with a major customer and looking for talented, driven individuals to help take Synquery to the next level.

The Role

As a Founding Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Synquery’s technical foundation and future growth. This is a senior hands-on position where you will design and implement scalable software solutions while leading on architectural decisions and technology choices. Working closely with the product team, you will align technical execution with business objectives and foster a collaborative, innovative engineering culture. Additionally, you will provide technical leadership to a small, experienced engineering team, guiding their efforts to achieve high-quality outcomes.

This is a high-growth role that emphasizes hands-on development and use of cutting-edge technologies while offering the opportunity to define the technical vision, lead innovation, and play a critical part in shaping the company’s long-term success.

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Development: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure software solutions. Actively contribute code and conduct code reviews. Uphold best practices in development to ensure quality and efficiency.
• Architectural Ownership: Shape the technical architecture to ensure scalability, maintainability, and performance of our systems.
• Product Collaboration: Work closely with the product team to translate business needs into technical requirements and deliver impactful features.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance to a small, experienced engineering team, ensuring alignment with company goals and fostering technical excellence.
• Team Collaboration: Promote a collaborative and innovative environment, enabling effective contributions from the team while maintaining high engineering standards.
• Innovation: Leverage emerging technologies in AI/ML, generative AI, search, and marketplace platforms to enhance product capabilities.
• Culture Building: As a founding engineer, you will strongly impact the engineering culture, influence hiring practices, team dynamics, and collaboration styles.

Qualifications

• Strong Technical Expertise: 7+ of experience in Full Stack Software Development. Must have deep proficiency in Python, REST API (FastAPI), React (Next.js, TypeScript), AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL. Highly desired but not mandatory experience in NLP, LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama), OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, and vector databases (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus).
• Communication Skills: Ability to clearly communicate in English is a must.
• Startup Experience: A dynamic, entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving. Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with a “get-it-done” attitude.
• Problem-Solving: Adept at tackling complex technical challenges, such as scaling the platform, automating processes using Generative AI, and ensuring seamless marketplace functionality.
• Team Collaboration: Solid interpersonal skills with the ability to work well with team members from varied cultural backgrounds.
• Marketplace Platform Expertise (Preferred): Experience in building and scaling two-sided marketplaces or platform-based businesses is an advantage but not required.

What We Offer

• High Impact Role: Be a pivotal contributor to Synquery’s growth and success.
• Career Growth: Opportunities for rapid advancement as the company scales.
• Equity Ownership: Meaningful equity options.
• Competitive Compensation: Competitive salary with flexible work arrangements.
• Supportive Culture: A collaborative team that values diversity, innovation, and mutual respect.
• Continuous Learning: Opportunities for professional development and working on cutting-edge technologies.