Ruby on Rails Dev – AI Agent | Earn equity

About us

– We’re building an agentic commerce platform – Zipchat.ai

– We work with hundreds of brands, we’re default-alive and we’re focused on innovating in the AI/Ecom space.

– We have a Shopify app, a Whatsapp app but we’re building on top of open standards so we can support all kind of merchants.

Ideal candidate

– Experience building RAG AI agents:

– LLM experience ( OpenAI, Anthropic, etc )

– Retrieval ( embeddings / vector dbs )

– Prompt engineering

– Dev skills

– Ruby on Rails 💎

– Hotwire ⚡️

– Experience with Web scraping & data storage

– Communication

– English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 – able to communicate without friction

– Proactivity – able to communicate issues proactively, unstuck themselves and work as a team

– Mindset

– Ownership – wants to take responsibility

– Innovation – can come up with ideas on improving the agent

– Can balance shipping fast with shipping good

– Time & Place

– Fully remote 🏡

– EU work hours ( must be within 3 hour diff of CET )

What you’ll be doing

– Coming up with ideas on how to improve the customer experience & agent performance

– Building new versions of the agent and testing them against the default

– Implementing new agent abilities

– Building new merchant UI to manage agent settings

– Improving scraping, data collection & storage

Why join

– Be part of enabling the “Agentic commerce” era

– Get equity in the business

– Freedom to build things your own way

– See your impact real time → fast feedback loop

– Be part of a small startup with high ambitions

Why not join

– We’re not a very social type of workplace – everyone works in their own lane and we sync ad/hoc

– You’ll be expected to ship

Work process

– We try to push to prod every day.

– We take “Ship fast and break things” to heart.

– Also “monitor your own stuff and make sure you fix things if you break something” 🙂

– Innovation velocity is our number one priority. We have no idea what will be useful to merchants and what won’t be, so we try to ship → collect feedback → ship → etc

– We’re a small team

– We’re a team of 8, half is tech

– You’ll be working alongside the tech founder and a dev lead

– You have the freedom to work however you like

– We’re fully remote

– There’s no strict working time ( CET is our anchor )

– You will be writing code 99% of the time, no bureaucracy

– We have no meetings unless necessary ( async chat or loom is preferred )

– We have no planning, no deadlines, no sprints, and no methodologies → We take the next task and try to ship it ASAP

– You figure things out, no babysitting

– You’ll need to come up with ways to improve the agent

– You’ll be presented with “shaped” features ( not too concrete, not too vague specs )

– Nobody will babysit you, you’ll need to get things done or ask for help proactively

Compensation

– $70,000-$100,000 ( before tax )

– Stock options ( Delaware C-corp )

Application process

– Submit form

– Get to know you call ( 30-60 min )

– See if we like each other and if might be a good fit or not

– 2hr dev session

– You’ll be presented with a real-life scenario

– You have 2 hours to work on it with a screen recorder

– We’ll review the footage & project afterwards

– Recap call

– Contract sign