[Remote] Founding Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Inlet is building automatic time-tracking software for legal professionals. The Founding Engineer will work with the CTO and founders to architect low-latency systems, improve modeling and evaluation pipelines, enhance the product and UX, and automate the development pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Make our processing faster. Help architect and optimize the low-latency systems that turn activity streams into time entries
• Improve our modeling. Build evaluation pipelines, identify where accuracy breaks down, run experiments, and make improvements across our multi-stage modeling pipeline
• Make reviewing time effortless. Talk with attorneys, paralegals, and customer success, then improve the product and UX so users can review their time with fewer clicks and corrections
• Build out our development pipeline. Help us automate parts of our engineering process so we can continue to speed up how we ship

Skills

• You have built real software
• You can investigate problems without a playbook and make good tradeoffs when speed, quality, and complexity pull in different directions
• You love building great products
• You want to understand why a customer is struggling before deciding what to build, and you will cross boundaries between backend systems, models, data, and interface design to get the result right
• You learn quickly and take ownership
• When something you built reaches production, you still consider it yours
• We want someone who can get deep in unfamiliar territory and emerge with a working, well-reasoned solution

Benefits

• Direct access to technical founders
• Meaningful influence on architecture and product decisions
• The chance to define the engineering culture rather than inherit it

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