AI Engineer– WFH Opportunity

About the Role

Mento is looking for a product-minded Senior Software Engineer with experience building data-related products to help develop AI-powered coaching experiences and software tools that augment human coaches. You’ll work closely with engineering, design, and coaching teams to turn coaching insights into impactful AI and software experiences.

This is a product-focused role on a small, fast-moving engineering team. You’ll build 0-to-1 features, design AI-enabled capabilities, develop scalable data pipelines and integrations, and help establish best practices around data and AI. The role is remote and open to candidates located in the United States or Canada.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and ship product features and experiences from 0-to-1, making thoughtful technical trade-offs in an early-stage environment.
• Design AI-enabled application capabilities on top of foundational AI models with an emphasis on adaptability, reuse, and scalability.
• Collaborate with coaching experts to translate coaching workflows and insights into high-quality AI agent and product experiences.
• Build scalable and reusable data pipelines and integrations for importing and exporting data across productivity and learning and development platforms.
• Contribute to the architecture and development of AI-powered coaching software and related engineering tools.
• Apply data engineering and software architecture principles to modern data-driven applications.
• Share expertise and best practices around data and AI through peer mentorship, code reviews, lunch-and-learns, and other team activities.
• Work closely with design and coaching teams to create compelling and valuable product experiences.
• Iterate quickly in a dynamic early-stage startup environment.
• Evaluate and adopt appropriate programming languages and technologies within defined service boundaries.

Required Qualifications

• Professional software engineering experience building and shipping data-related products used by real users.
• Experience with server-side web applications.
• Experience working with dynamic programming languages.
• Understanding of core data engineering concepts.
• Understanding of software architecture concepts for modern data-driven applications.
• Experience integrating LLM-based coding tools into software development workflows.
• Ability to work effectively in an early-stage environment with ambiguity and rapidly changing priorities.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to work as part of a small, cross-functional engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building early-stage or 0-to-1 products.
• Experience with event-driven architectures.
• Experience with traditional web application frameworks such as Ruby on Rails or Laravel.
• Experience with Go, TypeScript, or Ruby.
• Experience designing search indexes and data pipelines.
• Experience building AI-enabled products or integrating artificial intelligence into software applications.
• Experience working with LLM-based coding tools such as Cursor or Cody.
• Experience translating domain expertise or workflows into AI agents.
• Experience working in product-focused startup environments.

Skills & Competencies

• Software Engineering
• AI Engineering
• Artificial Intelligence
• LLM Applications
• AI Agents
• Data Engineering
• Data Pipelines
• Data Architecture
• Software Architecture
• Server-Side Web Applications
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Ruby on Rails
• Laravel
• Go
• TypeScript
• Ruby
• Search Indexing
• Data Integrations
• LLM Coding Tools
• Product Development
• Technical Problem Solving
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Mentorship
• Iterative Development

Education & Experience

Experience

• Professional software engineering experience with production data-related products.
• Experience building software used by real users.
• Experience with server-side web applications and dynamic programming languages.

Education

• No specific educational requirement was provided.

Work Arrangement & Location

• Fully remote.
• Open to candidates located in the United States or Canada.
• Mento is a remote-first company with team members across the US, Canada, and Latin America.
• Bi-annual team offsites.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Unlimited vacation.
• $500 home office stipend.
• Access to a Mento Coach.
• Flexible work approach focused on accountability an…