Software Engineer

We're looking for a creative and highly-motivated Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team here at Ready. This person will help build reliable, intelligent systems across our platform—from backend APIs to user-facing interfaces—while shaping how we incorporate modern AI tools into our products. You’ll work closely with Product and Design to translate ideas into features, integrate cutting-edge AI capabilities, and ensure our technology scales with customer needs.

About your role ⚡️

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and design (PED) to scope and deliver high-impact features that integrate traditional software with AI capabilities.
• Build and maintain reliable backend services and responsive frontend components with a focus on scalability and performance.
• Integrate AI/ML APIs (e.g., OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) into user-facing products, applying best practices in prompt design, data validation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews, ensuring high standards and shared learning.
• Document technical decisions and communicate clearly across functions to ensure alignment and transparency.
• Stay current with advancements in AI, software tooling, and cloud infrastructure to continuously improve our engineering approach.
• Troubleshoot production issues and own features end-to-end—from development through deployment and monitoring.
• Contribute to the design and development of internal tools that automate workflows and enhance developer productivity.
• Participate in sprint planning, retros, and other Agile ceremonies to ensure smooth execution.
• Optimize AI utilization by monitoring performance, addressing latency or accuracy issues, and flagging risks early.

A bit about you 🥇

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a similar technical field.
• 2+ years of experience building full stack or backend-heavy software products.
• Comfortable with modern web frameworks and languages (e.g., React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js).
• Hands-on experience integrating AI services (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, AWS Bedrock) into live applications.
• Familiarity with RAG systems, vector search, prompt engineering, and LLM architecture best practices.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure and CI/CD (e.g., Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions).
• Strong understanding of REST APIs, authentication flows, and asynchronous job processing.
• Excellent communicator and collaborator; proactive about surfacing risks and proposing solutions.
• Curious and fast learner, with the ability to dive into unfamiliar technologies and figure things out.
• Bonus: experience with LangChain, LLM monitoring tools, Airflow, or structured output parsers (e.g., Pydantic-AI).

About Ready 🚀

• Creative problem solvers approaching a legacy industry with a new point of view.
• Humble but ambitious, knowledgeable but curious, persistent but not obnoxious.
• Concise and effective in written and spoken communication.
• Remote-first work environment, we have critical mass around the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington D.C.
• One team, one dream.

About what you get…

• Competitive salary plus meaningful equity upside.
• Comprehensive (and ever-expanding) benefits for employees and their dependents.
• Opportunities to learn and grow – all things startups.
• A chance to play a role in defining the roadmap as we realize success in the United States and pursue the bolder vision of tackling the global market.
• To get away - we all convene 1-2x / year for teamwide retreats.
• We’re actively shaping our benefits program: have a say in which benefits matter to you.