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Software Engineer, Full Stack

Exa · San Francisco, California · On-site

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About Exa

Search API for AI agents that need real-time web data, deep research, and structured content from one endpoint. Try our API for free. Backed by Lightspeed, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you. As a Full Stack Engineer at Exa, you'll work on everything developers and agents touch when they use our product. That includes our developer dashboard, APIs, SDKs, and the rest of our developer platform.

What they're looking for

  • You're a strong generalist engineer, comfortable owning the product lifecycle from design to deploy
  • You're fluent in TypeScript, with a strong eye for front-end design, and comfortable learning new tools and technology as the work calls for it
  • You've designed and maintained backend APIs that real users and customers depend on
  • You've shipped products for LLMs, AI agents, or other systems used by many people
  • You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world
  • You have 3+ years of fullstack engineering experience
More about this role

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web, train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it, and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor, Cognition, HubSpot, and over 400,000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed, Benchmark, and a16z.

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the world's information, far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information, this is the place for you.

As a Full Stack Engineer at Exa, you'll work on everything developers and agents touch when they use our product. That includes our developer dashboard, APIs, SDKs, and the rest of our developer platform.

You're a strong generalist engineer, comfortable owning the product lifecycle from design to deploy

You're fluent in TypeScript, with a strong eye for front-end design, and comfortable learning new tools and technology as the work calls for it

You've designed and maintained backend APIs that real users and customers depend on

You've shipped products for...

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