Founding Software Engineer (Infrastructure)

The Opportunity

We’re reimagining fashion shopping with AI avatars. To do this we’re developing cutting-edge diffusion models and designing novel, personalized interfaces.

We’re a small team of creative builders in NYC with a rare combination of taste and deep AI expertise. Previously we’ve shipped consumer products to millions at Apple, DeepMind, Meta, and startups.

The Role

We're looking for a Founding Software Engineer to build and optimize the core infrastructure that powers our AI fashion platform. This role is in-person from our office in New York City.

As Founding Software Engineer you will...

design and implement scalable APIs that power our user-facing applications and AI avatar generation pipeline

create efficient systems for managing and serving millions of images / day

set up and maintain production infrastructure for serving AI models, monitoring, and deployment pipelines

drive best practices in system design, coding standards and engineering excellence

work directly with our founders to create industry-leading technology

You're a great fit if you...

have 5+ years of experience building backend services and APIs, with strong Python expertise

have experience designing and optimizing complex database schemas and queries (PostgreSQL, Redis)

have built event-driven architectures and implemented asynchronous processing systems

have experience with message queues and distributed systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ)

have shipped and maintained production services from scratch, with a focus on reliability and performance

are comfortable working with cloud services (AWS/GCP) and infrastructure orchestration tools (Kubernetes)

have implemented caching strategies and database optimizations at scale

are self-driven, high-agency, have a collaborative mindset and eager to solve challenging technical problems

have experience designing clean APIs and maintainable service architectures

are self-driven, high-agency, have a collaborative mindset and eager to solve challenging technical problems

have a genuine interest in AI/ML (direct experience not required), fashion, avatars or creative expression

Bonus if you...

have experience working with computer vision / ML processing pipelines

have built consumer products that handle significant scale

are familiar with ML model serving and deployment

have experience optimizing system performance and reliability