Founding Software Engineer at AI Startup

Why Besty AI?

Besty is a fast-growing, very ambitious startup of 12 people, with 5 engineers. We're building the AI brain for the $320B short‑term‑rental industry. In <2 years we’ve:

• Shipped a product loved by hundreds of paying hosts (20 % MoM revenue growth)
• Raised over $6M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, Hugging Face, Covariant, and Replicate
• You’ll be one of our first engineering hires and shape the culture, with opportunities for impact and leadership roles
• It's the perfect environment for anyone very ambitious who wants to learn about startups or be an entrepreneur in the future

Responsibilities

• Own & ship features end‑to‑end across backend (Node + Postgres) and a React frontend, using AI coding background and foreground agents as much as possible
• Prototype AI workflows that automate messaging, dynamic pricing, and ops for hosts
• Integrating and managing RestAPI providers: Juggling rate limits. latency, and uptime requirements with scaling millions of API calls in mind
• Pair with customers to surface pain points and ship fixes in hours

You Might Be a Fit If

• You’ve built impressive solo or side projects
• Hungry, curious, and comfortable with minimal structure
• You bias for shipping: fast feedback, tight loops
• Strong fundamentals in at least one backend language (TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and willingness to learn the rest fast
• Thrive in high‑intensity environments

What We Offer

• Ideal experience to found your own company or lead an engineering team
• High ownership → direct line to product decisions & customers
• Competitive equity and salary + full benefits
• Fully in-person office in Soho, Manhattan. 6-day work weeks but we stay physically healthy :)
• Intense, driven, and supportive culture