# SWE

**Company:** [AfterQuery](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/afterquery)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $84k – $120k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Go, Distributed Systems, System Design, GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, APIs, Nosql Databases, GitHub
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Build scalable data infrastructure and platform systems supporting data and evaluation for frontier AI labs. The role requires strong software fundamentals, distributed-systems expertise, cloud and Kubernetes familiarity, and ideally five or more years of experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable systems, focusing on the AfterQuery Experts site.
- Collaborate across research, product, and design to ship features quickly without sacrificing quality.
- Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation.
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions.
- Solve real-world scalability and reliability challenges.
- Contribute to the core infrastructure powering data and evaluation for leading AI labs.

## Requirements
- Ideally **5+ years of experience**.
- Strong coding fundamentals in **Node.js**, **TypeScript**, **Python**, and/or **Go**.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, scalability challenges, and system design.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as **Google Cloud** or **AWS**, **Kubernetes**, APIs, and NoSQL databases.
- Ability to reason about trade-offs and balance speed versus reliability under pressure.
- Active GitHub with real projects demonstrating a builder mindset.
- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively under heavy workloads.
- Proactive approach to identifying problems and driving solutions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to clearly articulate motivation for joining a startup and working in AI.

## Nice-to-haves
- Background as a founding engineer at a high-growth startup.
- Experience founding a technically sophisticated and complex product.
- Experience in fast-paced startup roles with strong references.

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