Job Title: Software Engineer

Company Name: Elicit

Job Url: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/elicit/aa99e2e9-5b15-4cd3-ac9d-9c9177ff61c8?utm_source=jobright&jr_id=68b792dd1ade4306aa64c127

Job Description: What you'll own
Build Elicit into a product researchers can’t live without

You’ll fully own shipping useful, exciting features out to users on a weekly basis.

You will work on a mix of known features / fixes, prototypes to validate ideas, and exploratory projects in between.

Our team is small, so we expect you to appreciate the user needs underlying everything you work on. You should be comfortable making decisions and trade-offs that help us fulfill users’ needs best.

Keep Elicit's bar for quality high

You’ll balance shipping features in the short term with building extensible and maintainable systems.

You will be responsible for your features in production: they need to be scalable, resilient, and easy to operate.

You’ll contribute to discussions around UX, system design, and architecture.

Projects you'll contribute to
You can view sample projects here.

What you bring to the role
Strong technical aptitude that allows you to move comfortably around our tech stack, both back-end and front-end, with strong computer science fundamentals.

Professional experience contributing to software development teams at a mid-career to senior level. We’re excited for you to unpack your past successes and build off your previous experience at Elicit!

Above-average communication skills. Elicit is a small, highly-collaborative team, so you’ll frequently be tapped to communicate complex engineering topics with stakeholders across the company.

Your past experience or exposure to working with language models. Because of the way language models work, you’re used to writing a lot of asynchronous code and thinking defensively about error handling.

A sense of joy in what you do. One thing we love about our team at Elicit is that everybody’s a craftsperson who cares deeply about their field.

Our tech stack
Backend: Node and Python

Frontend: Next.js, TypeScript, and Tailwind

We like static type checking in Python and TypeScript

All infrastructure runs in Kubernetes across a couple of clouds

We use GitHub for code reviews and CI