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Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Chima · San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US) · Remote

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About Chima

Building infrastructure tools to help large companies customize their…. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Make things users can touch. Craft clean, snappy UIs (Next.js/React) and the APIs that power them. Use the most advanced AI tool stack. Use every available AI engineering tool to 100x your shipping ability.

What they're looking for

  • Own features end-to-end: database schema, backend service, front-end component, deployment, and metrics
  • Design and maintain microservices (TypeScript/Node, Go, or Python) that stay healthy under real traffic
  • Build cloud infrastructure (AWS, Terraform/CDK, Kubernetes) that can survive an outage and keep the bill sane
  • Bake in security - RBAC, secret management, threat modeling - every time you merge
  • Stay curious, try new tools, share what works, and toss what doesn’t
More about this role

At Chima, we build the most advanced AI human reasoning systems. We build this AI to help real people learn faster than machines. New features roll out every day, and we’d rather ship a small, working slice than polish a giant spec no one uses. If you like shipping great products faster than ever before and experiencing customers and users gain value from what you’re offering to them and the world - then you’re in the right place!

Make things users can touch. Craft clean, snappy UIs (Next.js/React) and the APIs that power them.

Use the most advanced AI tool stack. Use every available AI engineering tool to 100x your shipping ability.

Keep the pipes flowing. Spin up CI/CD, write migrations, and add the logs/alerts that let us sleep at night.

Sprinkle in the smarts. When an LLM or vector search makes the product simpler, you’ll wire it in without fanfare.

Talk to customers. Jump on a quick call, watch how they actually work, and turn their “I wish…” into “Oh wow, it’s live already.”

Grow the team. Pair program, review code with kindness, and help us hire more smart+friendly experts.

  • Own features end-to-end: database schema, backend service, front-end component, deployment, and...

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