Zipchat Full stack Ruby on Rails engineer Earn equity

About us

• We’re building an AI agent for e-commerce - Zipchat.ai
• We believe the LLM revolution will change the way humanity shops. We’re trying to figure out how exactly.
• We work with hundreds of brands, we’re bootstrapped, we’re default-alive and we’re focused on innovating in the AI/Ecom space.
• We have a Shopify app, a Whatsapp app but we’re building on top of open standards so we can support all kind of merchants.

Ideal candidate

• Productive in our Tech stack:
  • Ruby on Rails 💎
  • Hotwire / ViewComponent ⚡
  • APIs REST/GraphQL
  • Experience with Shopify or Meta’s APIs is a plus ➕
• Communication
  • English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - able to communicate without friction
  • Proactivity - able to communicate issues proactively, unstuck themselves and work as a team
• Mindset
  • Ownership - wants to take responsibility
  • Product - able to build things that people want, and ship from 0 to 1
  • Hackerman - we work with a lot of 3rd parties, should be able to jump through hoops and find ways around walls
  • Embrace the chaos - prioritise shipping value to customers, not clean code. Make your mama proud, not your fellow dev buddies! 🤘

What you’ll be doing

• Implementing business logic / features
• Implementing UI ( customer side / merchant / admin )
• Handling integrations with Shopify, Meta, etc.

Why join

• Get equity in the business
• Freedom to build things your own way
• See your impact real time → fast feedback loop
• Be part of a small startup that has high ambitions

Why not join

• We’re not a very social type of workplace - everyone works in their own lane and we sync ad/hoc
• You’ll be expected to ship 🚢🚢🚢

Work process

• We try to push to prod every day.
  • We take “Ship fast and break things” to heart.
  • Also “monitor your own stuff and make sure you fix things if you break something” 🙂
  • Innovation velocity is our number one priority. We have no idea what will be useful to merchants and what won’t be, so we try to ship → collect feedback → ship → etc
• We’re a micro team
  • We’re currently 3 founders, one of them is technical.
  • You’ll be working alongside the tech founder.
• You have the freedom to work however you like
  • We’re fully remote
  • There’s no working time ( CET is our anchor time )
  • You’re expected to spend ~30 productive hours* per week on the project
  • Nobody cares if you moonlight, have a side hustle or you like to surf during the day - just do your job
• You will be writing code 99% of the time, no bureaucracy
  • We have no meetings unless necessary ( async chat or loom is preferred )
  • We have no planning, no deadlines, no sprints, and no methodologies → We take the next task and try to ship it ASAP
• You figure things out, no babysitting
  • You’ll be presented with “shaped”** features ( not too concrete, not too vague specs )
  • You’ll need to figure out how to build them following our product philosophy
  • Nobody will babysit you, you’ll need to get things done or ask for help proactively

*Productive work hours - Hours spent actually working. We use Toggl to track our time.

**Shaped features - See https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.1-chapter-02)

Compensation

• $6k per month ( $72,000 / year ) ( before tax )
• Stock options ( Delaware C-corp )

Application process

• Submit form
• Get to know you call ( 30-60 min )
  • See if we like each other and if might be a good fit or not
• 2 week paid contract ( $2k )
  • We believe the only way to see if we’re a good fit is to do some work together
  • We’ll hire you for 2 weeks, see what we can achieve together
  • After, both sides can decide if they wish to continue working
• Contract sign