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Location: REMOTE / Toronto, Ontario. This job allows you to work remotely. PathPilot is on a mission to help millions of people unlock their potential by navigating and optimizing their careers through the power of AI. With 7-figures in non-dilutive funding and strong ecosystem partnerships, were building an AI Career Companion that helps people clarify goals, discover opportunities, and grow through personalized support. Were looking for a Software Engineer to help us build, scale, and refine the core product experience behind PathPilot. Youll work closely with the founding team to design and ship reliable, usercentric software, turning powerful AI capabilities into intuitive, productionready features that people actually love using. This role is ideal for a strong fullstack or backendleaning engineer who enjoys shipping product, thinking in systems, and working in fastmoving environments where ownership and impact matter. Why join PathPilot? - Build meaningful, userfacing software that directly impacts peoples careers - Work closely with the founder and early engineering leadership - Ship real features quickly in an AInative product environment - Collaborate with a small, senior team that values velocity and clarity - Use modern tooling (including AI coding tools like Cursor or Aider) to move faster - Enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and a remotefriendly work culture - Help shape the future of AIpowered career products backed by strong funding and partners What are we looking for in a Software Engineer? Youre a strong productminded engineer who knows how to take ideas from concept to production. You care about code quality, system reliability, and thoughtful user experiences but youre not afraid to iterate quickly and learn in the open. Youre comfortable working across the stack, collaborating with product and design, and integrating with AI systems built by the broader engineering team. What will you be doing: - Build and ship core product features across the PathPilot platform - Design and implement backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript - Contribute to frontend development using React and modern UI patterns - Integrate AIpowered features and workflows into the product experience - Work with data models, user context, and application state to enable personalization - Write clean, maintainable, and welltested code - Collaborate closely with product, design, and AI engineering partners - Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability over time - Help evolve engineering standards, tooling, and development workflows - Prioritize shipping user value without compromising longterm quality How will you spend your time: - 45% product engineering (frontend and backend feature development) - 20% system design and technical refinement - 15% AI feature integration and experimentation - 10% testing, reliability, and performance improvements - 10% collaboration, planning, and iteration In your first 30 days, you will: - Get familiar with the PathPilot codebase, product, and workflows - Ship small but meaningful improvements to the product - Pair with the founding engineering team on feature development - Build context around users and product priorities In your first 90 days, you will: - Own and ship larger product features endtoend - Improve reliability or performance of core systems - Contribute to frontend and backend architectural decisions - Collaborate closely with product on iteration and feedback loops In your first 180 days, you will: - Take ownership of major areas of the product - Help scale systems to support growing users and B2B pilots - Establish patterns and best practices other engineers can follow - Mentor new contributors as the engineering team grows Our hiring process: - Intro Call Align on mission, role expectations, and goals - Async Exercise A small, productfocused technical task - Technical Interview Deep dive into your approach and tradeoffs - Final Conversation Alignment with the founder on vision and culture - Offer We move quickly and transparently Must Have Skills: - Have 35 years of professional software engineering experience - Are comfortable with JavaScript/TypeScript and modern web frameworks - Have experience building backend APIs and services (Node.js preferred) - Have worked with frontend frameworks like React - Understand software engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, code reviews) - Think in systems and care about scalability and maintainability - Are comfortable working in fastpaced, ambiguous environments - Enjoy collaborating crossfunctionally and owning your work - Use AI tools to improve your productivity, not replace fundamentals Nice to Have Skills: - Built SaaS products used by real users - Worked in earlystage startups or 01 environments - Integrated LLMs or AI APIs into production software - Worked with databases like Postgres, Supabase, or similar - Have experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) #J-18808-Ljbffr