Software Engineer – Special Projects
HeyMilo AI
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Francisco • California • United States
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About the role
- Work closely with sales and customers to understand real-world problems
- Build fast prototypes and iterate quickly under tight timelines
- Turn ambiguous requirements into working, end-to-end systems
- Ship across the stack and make pragmatic tradeoffs
- Help translate early solutions into production-ready systems
Requirements
- Ex-founders strongly preferred or similar startup experience
- Strong product sense and ability to make decisions without perfect information
- Comfortable working under pressure and hitting tight deadlines
- Deep understanding of software fundamentals (databases, systems, APIs)
- Strong full-stack or backend experience
- Heavy user of AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, etc.)
- Knows how to use AI to move significantly faster than average engineers
- Able to break down business problems into creative technical solutions
- High ownership, scrappy, and execution-focused
- Bonus: Experience with LLMs, prompt engineering, or conversational AI
- Experience with real-time systems or voice/telephony
- Experience working with enterprise customers
Benefits
- Competitive base salary + bonuses
- Work on high-stakes, high-visibility problems with direct impact on company revenue
- Build fast, ship often, and see immediate results
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
full-stack developmentbackend developmentsoftware fundamentalsdatabasessystemsAPIsreal-time systemsLLMsprompt engineeringconversational AI
Soft Skills
product sensedecision makingworking under pressurehitting tight deadlinescreative problem solvinghigh ownershipscrappyexecution-focused