Senior Software Engineer, Minted
AI + Growth
Geo Base Full Salary Range - $90.00/hr - $115.00/hr
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
Job no longer available
Design marketplace connecting people with artists
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
Geo Base Full Salary Range - $90.00/hr - $115.00/hr
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To uncover the world's best creative talent through crowdsourcing and curation and bring it to market.
Role
Who you are
- Passion for Building: You love creating great products with passionate colleagues and are motivated by owning outcomes, not just inputs
- Curiosity and Initiative: You’re an early tinkerer with AI technologies (e.g., ChatGPT, LLMs) and have a track record of asking, “How can I improve this?”—even in adjacent roles
- Autonomy and Accountability: You thrive in autonomous environments, take responsibility for your work, and may have experience with side hustles or entrepreneurial ventures
- Technical Versatility: You’re a strong generalist excited to contribute across the stack, from front-end to back-end, and eager to learn new domains
- AI Enthusiasm: Experience or interest in building with AI tools, such as Cursor, and a desire to push the boundaries of AI-driven features
- Show, Don’t Tell: Stand out by sharing something you’ve built using AI tools like Cursor
- Full-Stack Experience: Proven experience building full-stack software applications, including web frontends, backing APIs, and data model layers. Exact technology match is not required, but excitement to contribute across the stack is essential
- Willingness to Learn: Eagerness to dive into new domains, including AI tools, techniques, and APIs
- Technical Proficiency: Strong programming skills in languages such as Python, TypeScript, or similar. Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and back-end technologies (e.g., Node.js, APIs) is a plus
- Familiarity with cloud systems: (e.g., AWS, Docker), Elasticsearch, Kafka, or database systems (SQL/NoSQL)
- Outcome-Oriented: Focused on delivering impactful, high-quality features that align with business and customer goals
- Collaborative and Inclusive: Foster a respectful, accountable team culture where diverse perspectives thrive
- Solution-Focused: Approach challenges with a forward-thinking mindset, maintaining momentum and driving innovation
- Customer-Centric: Committed to enhancing the customer experience through thoughtful, AI-driven solutions
- Strategic: Able to balance short-term priorities with long-term technical vision
Desirable
- Experience designing and building large, data-intensive systems
- Experience using large language models (LLMs) programmatically, building AI agents, or working with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
- Prior experience at a startup, particularly in fast-paced, early-stage environments
What the job involves
- THIS WILL BE A 6 MONTH CONTRACT
- We are seeking a passionate and versatile Senior Software Engineer (AI + Growth) to join our dynamic team
- As a technical generalist, you will contribute to the development of AI-driven features, own outcomes from ideation to production, and help lay the foundation for rapid expansion of our AI capabilities
- You thrive in autonomous environments, are eager to tackle both big and small challenges, and are motivated by improving user experiences through innovative solutions
- This role will work closely with a repeat founder and a small, collaborative team to rapidly prototype, test, and ship features that delight our customers
- Collaborate directly with the team and customers to rapidly prototype, test, and ship AI-driven features across all product surfaces
- Design and implement features leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and large-scale data extraction
- Extend core APIs, AI infrastructure, and data pipelines to enable highly requested application features
- Own end-to-end feature development: from ideation and design to implementation, production, and user feedback
- Use AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., Cursor) to accelerate development and maintain high-quality code
- Work with leadership to align technical solutions with business goals, ensuring high-quality, on-time deliverables
Our take
Minted is a design marketplace, sourcing creative content from a global community of artists, using technology and crowdsourcing to give consumers access to independent creatives unavailable through traditional retailers.
With the success of sites like Etsy allowing consumers to buy direct from artisans, Minted sets itself apart by holding monthly art and design challenges which are open for both submission and voting. The ‘crowd’ curates Minted’s product selection by rating products, and Minted utilizes analytics to evaluate votes. The winning designs go into production which is taken care of by Minted's fulfillment house and the designers receive a 6%-10% cut of the sales.
Its unique ‘design by upvoting’ business model has led to almost $300M in funding, with backing from Benchmark Capital and IDG Ventures. As contests draw in more designers, the company is looking to expand beyond Minted.com and into physical retail, finding new ways to use the designs and creating fresh income streams for themselves and their artists.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2018
$208m
SERIES E
Oct 2014
$38m
SERIES D
Total funding: $297.1m
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mariam Naficy
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Mariam is currently the CEO of Arcade, a role she has held since 2023. She is also a Member on the Board of Directors at Victoria's Secret. Previously, she founded Heretic Ventures where she served as a Managing Partner for 5 years.
Melissa Kim
(Co-Founder & CEO)Since co-founding Minted in 2007, Melissa has held various roles at the company, moving into the role of CEO in 2023. Prior to Minted, she was a Manager of Corporate Strategy at eBay and an Associate at The Boston Consulting Group.
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