Founding Kotlin Software Engineer - SF AI Developer Tool Startup

Founding Kotlin Software Engineer - SF AI Developer Tool Startup Location: San Francisco (SoMa), CA (onsite 5x/week) The position will be in the company's office in San Francisco 5 days/week. The company seeks engineers who are eager to work in the office in a fast-paced and highly collaborative environment. The company's product is a developer tool involving Artificial Intelligence. It started as an open source project, and has rapidly gained traction as a superior alternative to much larger competitors' products. It is already processing a large number of tokens daily and has over 100,000 installs. It also has a thriving open source community, with dozens of engineers interested in being contributors. This has all been achieved with 1 employee (the Founder). The company has raised $5 million in seed funding, and is rapidly growing. The ideal compensation package for the company will be $180k with heavy equity, but they are open to paying as much as $250k in salary with less equity. In any case, the equity could be very lucrative. Job Responsibilities: - Leading development of the JetBrains plugin infrastructure in Kotlin. - Designing and implementing interfaces between Kotlin and the shared TypeScript/React codebase. - Building performant plugin features using JetBrains Platform SDK. - Collaborating with the TypeScript team on shared architecture decisions. - Shaping the technical roadmap and engineering culture. - Reviewing pull requests and issues from the open source community. Qualifications: - Passion and excitement about the intersection of AI and developer tools, as demonstrated by work experience, personal projects, and/or open source contributions. - BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience. - Expertise with Kotlin development, either for Android or backend engineering. - Strong understanding of the JVM ecosystem. Nice to Have: - Experience with TypeScript and React. - Experience building JetBrains plugins. - Experience with IntelliJ Platform SDK. - Background in developer tools or IDE extensions. - Open source contributions and personal projects (please include them on your resume). - Experience with prompt engineering and LLM integration. - Experience with AI software development tools such as LangChain, OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. About Skyrocket Ventures Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general. Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us. After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you. Thank you, and we wish you a great job search