Ruby on Rails Dev - AI Agent | Earn equity at Zipchat AI

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