# Software Engineer (Early Career) at Pax

- Company: Pax (YC S24)
- What the company does: AI Broker for Tariff Refunds. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://paxai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $130K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/pax/jobs/5Schb9r-software-engineer-early-career
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/pax-software-engineer-early-career/

## About the role

Entry & export audits: an AI audit agent that reviews every entry line by line and catches errors before they ever reach CBP. (Shipping now, and you could own pieces of it.) We're well-capitalized, we already have real enterprise customers, and we're looking for an early-career software engineer to take real ownership of the products above, early enough that your work shapes the company and the $10B+ industry we're transforming.

## What they're looking for

- Has built and shipped something they're proud of. Show us the GitHub, the side project, the thing you couldn't stop working on. We care more about what you've built than where you've worked
- Can go deep on backend architecture and also cares that the UI feels crisp
- Is genuinely curious about building with LLMs, whether or not you've shipped with them before, and eager to learn fast
- Understands tradeoffs, knows when to move fast, and when to polish
- Is comfortable with ambiguity and thrives in early-stage environments
- Doesn't need permission to start something, but knows when to ask for input

Tags: Engineering