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just words

Scale hyper-personalized messaging with AI

Founding Engineer

$120K - $180K / 0.25% - 1.25%
Location
San Francisco, CA, US
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
3+ years
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Neha Mittal
Neha Mittal
Founder

About the role

As a Founding Engineer, your responsibility would be to help us build
and scale our product from the ground up. You will work closely with
the founders on design, research, and direction, and you will be
working along every part of the stack.

We are looking for someone with a startup mindset. You must be
willing to bet on yourself and build expertise quickly.

Skills:

  * Full-stack development experience
      + You have designed, developed, and maintained full-stack web
        applications
      + You have developed high-performance, high-throughput backend
        services
      + You have worked in production environments and have been on
        on-call rotations
  * Data experience
      + You have experience working with MapReduce frameworks like
        Spark and processing large datasets
      + You can think analytically and have performed and analyzed A/
        B tests
      + You have experience building and deploying machine-learning
        models
      + You have experience building complex recommendation systems
  * Cloud architecture experience
      + You have experience working with cloud services and have
        designed and maintained cloud architectures
  * Stewardship
      + You have experience as a tech lead or an OSS maintainer. You
        can make high-quality technical decisions
      + You can handle production issues and think clearly under
        pressure
      + You have experience designing and maintaining complex product
        features
  * Leadership
      + You communicate bottlenecks quickly and resolve differences
        proactively
      + You work with the team to break down problems and evaluate
        pros and cons effectively
      + You are a team player and like to understand the context of
        the product and customers beyond engineering
  * Traits
      + You obsess with data and enjoy optimization challenges
      + You are excited about high-stakes projects and delivering for
        real customers
      + You excel in chaotic environments

Qualifications:

  * 3+ years of industry experience in full-stack development, data
    engineering, or machine learning.
  * Strong proficiency in either frontend or backend languages.
    Preferred frontend language is Typescript (NextJS is a plus), and
    preferred backend language is anything that is strongly typed
    (Java, Scala, Rust).
  * Proficiency in SQL and understanding of database design. (PySpark
    is a plus)
  * Hands-on experience with cloud and auth platforms (e.g., AWS,
    Cloudflare, Clerk) and DevOps practices.
  * Experience with A/B experimentation, ML modeling, and deployments

Why Join Us:

  * Grow and learn 10X faster compared to big-tech
  * Be a part of the founding team that's shaping the future of
    AI+Growth.
  * Opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology and solve complex
    problems.
  * Get first-hand experience in building 0-1 startups alongside
    founders.
  * Be involved in critical decision-making to sustain and scale
    businesses.

About just words

Marketing isn't "just words" -- It's about understanding your core
customers and speaking their language, and it is an important lever
for growth. However, the reality is that marketing teams get bogged
down by organizational and operational inefficiencies, and they
struggle to keep up with their users' needs. That's why we're
building Just Words, an AI-first marketing copilot that automatically
optimizes your marketing campaigns and hyper-personalizes marketing
content at scale.

Our mission is to build an AI that can handle day-to-day marketing
operations like coming up with new campaigns and designing compelling
emails and notifications that resonate with each user, but our core
vision is to make marketing feel more like a conversation than
"content."

just words
just words
Founded:2024
Team Size:2
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Neha Mittal
Neha Mittal
Founder
  

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