Engineer

Summary

Hostie is your restaurant’s Virtual Concierge, making sure every call, text, or question gets answered in your voice. The Engineer role involves building and shipping complete features, collaborating with various teams, and taking ownership of projects while contributing across the full stack.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship complete features end-to-end. You’ll write clean, maintainable code to rollout and monitoring in production
• Collaborate closely with the founders, PMs, Sales and CS to understand product requirements and navigate trade-offs
• Take ownership of your work with a strong attention to detail and a bias toward getting things done
• Contribute across the full stack with a lean toward backend and distributed systems as you grow your depth over time
• Learn fast, ask good questions, and raise the bar

Skills

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We'll give you the keys and projects, but we want you to act like an owner
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understand why and fix the core issues vs just the ticket
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales
• Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo
• Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (WebSockets, etc.)
• Experience integrating third-party APIs
• Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you've built something with them, even if it's with Claude Code

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 2–4 years of professional software engineering experience shipping high quality code
• Ability to work independently with a strong sense of ownership. We'll give you the keys and projects, but we want you to act like an owner
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving instincts; you dig in until you understand why and fix the core issues vs just the ticket
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across engineering, product, and sales

Nice to Haves

• Familiarity with our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, Next.js, React, LLM-agnostic and Mongo
• Any experience with real-time systems or event-driven architectures (WebSockets, etc.)
• Experience integrating third-party APIs
• Curiosity about or hands-on experimentation with LLM APIs — you've built something with them, even if it's with Claude Code