Software Engineer
Luthor, San Francisco, California +1
- Pay
- $125K–$180K / year
- Work type
- Remote
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Nov 23, 2024
About the role
About Luthor
AI is making it possible for companies to create more content than humans can possibly review.
That’s the problem we solve. Luthor eliminates the gap between what companies say and what they can stand behind.
We build AI-powered governance for enterprise communications, helping financial and legal institutions review, approve, and monitor content at the speed of modern production.
Over the past year, we’ve onboarded some of the world’s largest public financial institutions, surpassed $900B+ AUM on platform, and expanded across banks, lenders, asset managers, and law firms.
About the Role
As our second full-time engineering hire, you’ll work directly with the CEO and CTO (both engineers) to design and build the backbone of our platform.
You'll interface directly with our customers and prospects to gather feedback to develop novel solutions to the unique problems they face around marketing compliance.
This is startup life in its truest form: We ship multiple times a day and you'll be expected to demo new features to our customers every week. You’ll take ownership of your work, see the immediate impact on customers, and help define the engineering culture for years to come.
What to expect
Within days:
- Ship to production on day one.
- Develop backend logic for performance and scalability for frontend requests.
- Design robust data models and manage databases.
Within weeks:
- Build integration and product infrastructure for LLMs. Provide Luthor agents with the infrastructure, data sources, and tools they need to automate workflows for financial compliance teams.
- Lead customer calls to gather feedback and refine backend features.
Within months:
- Own customer outcomes and success. Continue shipping value, not just code.
- Lead architectural decisions to scale our services across geographies, tech stacks, and business types.
- Hire, onboard, and nurture future backend teammates.
Tech stack
- Experience with Rails, React, Postgres (or similar)
- LLMs, prompt engineering, or agent-based systems
- Workflow automation or integration-heavy systems
About You
- Customer-obsessed — You’re driven to deeply understand customer pain points and solve real problems, engaging directly to make an impact.
- Experienced in Fast-Growth B2B – You’ve built and scaled high-performing software products, shipping fast and often. Bonus if you have experience in fintech or enterprise SaaS.
- Entrepreneurial & Self-Driven – You take ownership, thrive in ambiguity, and execute without waiting for direction. You simplify solutions and get things done.
- Strong Communicator – You’re proactive in sharing feedback, adaptable to change, and comfortable pitching product ideas in a fast-moving startup environment.
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