Lead Engineer, Optix
$120-140k
+ ESOP
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Platform to manage coworking spaces
Open for applications
Platform to manage coworking spaces
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-140k
+ ESOP
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To enable flex spaces with the best user experience.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals
- Proven experience at a SaaS company, navigating ambiguity and establishing AI best practices
- You’ve developed AI-based software
- Hands-on experience with AI APIs, prompt engineering, RAG implementation, and evaluation frameworks
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving adoption of new technical practices across a team
- Demonstrated ability to make architectural decisions that balance innovation with pragmatism
- You can clearly articulate when not to use AI and how to evaluate whether AI features are actually working
- Experience leading the cultural shift to AI-first development practices within an existing team
- We welcome applicants from all walks of life. Even if you don’t feel you meet every requirement listed, we would still love to hear why you think you would be an awesome addition to our team, and we encourage you to apply
Desirable
- Knowledge of AI frameworks like LangChain, Pydantic, LlamaIndex for building reliable AI features
- Experience with model evaluation, A/B testing, performance monitoring, and quality assurance for AI features
- Experience with PHP/Laravel and MySQL
- Data engineering background: ETL pipelines, vector databases, embedding management
- Deployment expertise: Containerization, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), monitoring AI systems in production
- Prior experience in B2B SaaS platforms serving enterprise customers
What the job involves
- As the Lead Engineer at Optix, you will be primarily responsible for the technical health of the platform, architecting and building new features, and leading the way on the transition to being an AI first, agentic platform
- Partner with our CEO to translate business objectives into technical solutions and architectural decisions
- Mentor our engineering team, building their technical and AI capabilities
- Evolve engineering practices, including adopting AI-first development
- Own the architecture and long term technical vision for the Optix platform, develop and execute a plan to achieve it
- Architect scalable AI systems that integrate seamlessly with our existing automations platform
- Guide technical decisions on model selection, integration patterns, and system architecture
- Establish evaluation frameworks and quality standards for AI feature development
- Design and build features in the Optix platform
- Work with Customer Success and Technical Support teams to resolve customer issues, and develop the system to reduce future ticket volume
- Implement monitoring and evaluation infrastructure to continuously improve feature performance
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI across our platform for maximum customer impact
Our take
Making the most out of your flexible workspace isn't easy. Optix helps ease this problem by connecting users with the community, resources, and services that workplaces have to offer.
As a spin-off of the successful coworking space company ShareDesk, Optix has had an advantage over its competitors since the beginning. The company has attracted businesses like 1880, The Cloud Room, and Thrive, and has impressively increased its revenue year on year.
The increase in remote and flexible workers has paid off for Optix, and the company is well-positioned to scale dramatically over the coming years. It will need to innovate its app and attract more coworking brands if it is to consolidate its progress.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2016
$2.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $2.6m
Company benefits
- Strong Employee Stock Option Plan offering
- Excellent health and dental coverage program provided by Sunlife
- Mission-driven workplace experience with a positive, collaborative and supportive team culture
- Personal and professional growth opportunities
- Healthy snacks and locally roasted coffee – slow pour is our jam
- Weekly team lunches and socials
- Annual health and fitness credit
- Fun offsite activities that allow us to reconnect as a team
- A beautiful, waterfront Gastown office and a flexible hybrid workplace plan
Company HQ
Gastown, Vancouver, BC
Leadership
Kia Rahmani
(Founder & CEO)Previously founded StartupsXL, a coworking provider for tech startups.
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