
About Onton
Revolutionizing online shopping, one product at a time
Key Highlights
- Headquartered in San Francisco, California
- Originally launched as Deft, now rebranded to Onton
- Focus on high-quality product discovery without clutter
- Team size of 11-50 employees, enhancing e-commerce capabilities
Onton, headquartered in San Francisco, California, is redefining the online shopping experience by focusing on high-quality product discovery. Initially launched as Deft, Onton aims to eliminate clutter and intrusive ads, providing a streamlined platform for users to find products across various cat...
🎁 Benefits
Onton offers competitive salaries, equity options, flexible remote work policies, and generous PTO to ensure a healthy work-life balance for its emplo...
🌟 Culture
Onton fosters a culture of innovation and user-centric design, prioritizing a streamlined shopping experience and encouraging team collaboration to en...
Overview
Onton is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to design and implement user-critical features as they scale their neurosymbolic AI platform. You'll work with a dynamic team to tackle complex engineering challenges. This role requires 3+ years of relevant engineering experience.
Job Description
Who you are
You have 3+ years of relevant engineering experience, preferably in fast-scaling companies — you thrive in environments where you can tackle complex problems and contribute to building foundational systems. As a self-directed generalist, you are capable of picking up any engineering problem and solving it, no matter how tedious. You are comfortable shipping code quickly and iteratively, ensuring it is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable. You take pride in the excellence of the product you build and are always looking to enhance your skills and knowledge of the latest technologies.
What you'll do
Join Onton as a Founding Engineer and set the foundation for our Engineering Team. You will design, scope, implement, and deploy user-critical features that will enhance the decision-making experience for millions of users. Collaborate with a dynamic team of engineers, AI researchers, and product designers to tackle cutting-edge problems and create a seamless, cohesive experience for users. You will build across every layer of the stack, including web applications, containers, and infrastructure, while staying up-to-date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system and the team.
What we offer
At Onton, you will have the opportunity to work on impactful projects that guide users to their perfect products. We foster a collaborative environment where your contributions will directly influence the growth and success of the company. As we scale to serve over 1 billion searches per year, you will play a crucial role in shaping the future of our platform and the experiences of our users.
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