Software Engineer | Applied AI Job at Instead, San Francisco, CA

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  • Instead
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

About Instead Instead is a tax platform designed to help taxpayers and tax professionals collaborate to save money on taxes. As the first company in decades to receive IRS approvals to E-file 1040, 1041, 1120, 1120S, and 1065 - we're re-inventing a complex category. Founded in 2023, Instead combines LLMs with tax law to make tax management a continuous, proactive process rather than a dreaded annual deadline. Instead's investors include Sarah Guo, from Conviction (conviction.com) and many of our customers who believe in our mission and vision. The Instead team comprises talented leaders from leading tax, financial services and fintech companies - Gusto, Intuit, Zenefits, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, Bloomberg - as well as top tax & accounting firms such as PwC, BDO, RSM, and KPMG. Instead was a 2024 Innovation Award Finalist in CPA Practice Advisor. Instead's CEO, Andrew Argue, is a CPA and has been named Top 100 Most Influential People in the Accounting Profession twice - Ones To Watch and CPA Practice Advisors 20 under 40. About the role This role is at the forefront of leveraging AI to drive innovation across our platform. We are seeking strong full-stack engineers who are proficient in web frameworks, backend development, and infrastructure. You will work on exciting projects such as AI Agents, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Structured Extraction, and other high value features for our customers. If you're passionate about working on real production use cases utilizing LLMs and want to contribute to groundbreaking AI applications, this role is for you. What you'll do Ship full-stack AI projects end to end Build and integrate components for AI infrastructure, supporting production-level inference and advanced prompt engineering Develop and improve engineering processes, tools, and systems to scale AI solutions across Instead Create tools and internal platforms to enhance the productivity and capabilities of Instead's teams What you need Proficiency in full-stack development, with a strong understanding of web frameworks, backend systems, and cloud infrastructure A track record of working on full-stack AI projects, particularly those involving production use cases of LLMs Experience building backend systems and infrastructure that can support AI-driven products Tech stack Front End: Vue, Nuxt, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS Back End: Go, Docker on AWS ECS/Fargate, PostgreSQL on AWS RDS AI: Cursor with Sonnet 3.5, Langchain, Helicone, Gemini, Open AI's API utilizing 4o (still trying to determine best use cases for o1 pro) and any other piece of AI tech that we can get our hands on. Benefits 100% medical insurance coverage for you Partially covered for your dependents FSA/HSA/FSA Dependent Care options 401k (including employer match on contributions up to 4%) Unlimited PTO (yes, we want you to take it) Parental Leave (includes support for both the mother and the father) Relocation support for SF Company equity Sick in office location in East Cut of downtown SF In office perks (like team outings, lunches, piatas on birthdays, etc) Other notices Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Instead

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