Senior Software Engineers - AI Startup (full-time or part-time)
About Software Velocity Corp Software Velocity Corp., based in Greater Boston, MA, is a pre-seed stage Generative AI software startup on a mission to revolutionize and disrupt the software testing industry. Our mission is to empower software companies from any industry, domain, or platform to reimagine and redesign their approach to software testing, enabling them to deliver higher-quality software at significantly accelerated rates. About the roles We are looking for experienced Development Engineers to join our team and take ownership of key components of our platform stack (Front-End, Middleware, and Back-End). As an early team member, you will collaborate closely with our Chief Architect and the founding team, significantly influencing our company's product, technology, and strategic direction. These roles offer a unique opportunity to shape the foundation of our platform, culture, software development, and quality engineering practices. Successful candidates will have a strong background in building products or microservices, utilizing cloud services, APIs, and AI-development assistance to meet design and business objectives. You will be solving diverse and interesting problems, transforming our vision into reality, while being accountable for the quality, correctness, and resilience of what ships to production. Our Ask of You Startups are dynamic, fluid, and fast-paced. This is not a role for everyone. Please ask yourself if you are ready for this challenge before applying: • Is our mission exciting and energizing to you? • Do you have 20+ years of professional software development experience, including hands-on responsibility for architecting, building, and evolving production systems over multiple technology generations? • Have you been personally accountable for software quality, including test strategy, failure prevention, and learning from production issues or regressions? • Can you produce excellent work products semi-autonomously, with sound technical and quality judgment? • And though we’re in an incredible phase of creation and growth, can you work in the short term without salary compensation until the company is funded (~9-12 months)? • If you are curious, collaborative, highly productive, and eager to learn and teach, you will thrive in our culture. • Must be U.S. Citizens and located in the continental U.S. due to the nature of contract obligations. Work authorization, visas, or permanent residency do not meet this requirement due to the nature of government contract obligations. If your answer to these questions is “Yes,” we look forward to speaking with you about playing a key role on our team. Role Objectives • Development: Build highly scalable distributed software and microservices that enhance user experiences and drive business growth. Back-end, Front-end, and Full-Stack roles are available. • Feature Development: Develop new features and infrastructure to support emerging business requirements. • Project Leadership: Lead new projects (as needed) from conceptualization to deployment, with testing and quality designed in, not bolted on. • Performance and Quality: Ensure application performance, uptime, and scalability while maintaining high standards for code quality, test coverage aligned to risk, and minimizing technical debt. • Agile Methodologies: Agile Methodologies: Adhere to agile development methodologies and industry best practices, with a strong bias toward production readiness. Key Responsibilities • Development: Participate in all aspects of agile software development, including design, implementation,testing, and deployment. • Designing Systems: Design and guide the building of end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale. • Language Proficiency: Use appropriate languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, etc. • Collaboration: Engage with UX, front-end, and back-end engineers to create reliable APIs and meaningful validation strategies. • Communication: Collaborate via Slack, GitHub, and videoconferences. Our Culture and who we are: Our founding team has lived the industry’s status quo experience firsthand and bristled against the constraints forced upon today’s software testers and quality engineers. We believe a new, revolutionary & disruptive approach is required to test modern, innovative, highly complex software at scale to ensure business outcomes and customer value. We believe working effectively and efficiently while balancing quality of life fosters optimal team performance. Our culture is curious, low-ego, and high-output, celebrating achievements together. We value fast decision-making on reversible decisions and empower our team members to deliver work that delights our customers and earns their trust. Apply tot his job