Founding Engineer

Join us and build the AI layer that runs hotels around the world

ALTEK AI is a Norwegian AI startup building the technology that automates hotel operations starting with guest communication. Founded in 2024 by two technical co-founders weve grown in under two years from our first customer to 115 hotels signed across 8 countries approaching NOK 4M in ARR with several major hotel chains in the pipeline. Were now scaling further internationally including into the US and raising a seed round to accelerate that growth.

Today our core product is AI Email which already gives hotels contextual reply suggestions based on availability pricing and reservations powered by AI agents that pull information from the hotels various systems. The ambition goes far beyond email: over time these agents will also automate the research coordination and execution behind decisions. AI Phone is the next step on this path toward a platform where hotel teams spend less time operating software and more time doing hospitality.

About the role

The founders can no longer own all technical development themselves so were hiring our very first internal engineer. Youll join the product and technology team report to both founders and help define how we build technology going forward. This isnt a role where you implement a finished roadmap.

Youll get to:

• Build and evolve AI agents and LLM systems in production including retrieval/grounding tool calling/skills and evaluation infrastructure

• Define the logic for when AI should act on its own and when a human should be involved

• Work across the whole stack from architecture and backend in Python to frontend in React/TypeScript

• Take things from idea and prototype to production and iterate quickly based on real usage

• Work closely with hotels and translate customer problems into technical and product decisions

Because youre joining this early the growth potential is significant.

Who were looking for

• A strong software engineer with solid experience in Python and backend development

• Hands-on experience with LLMs/LLM APIs ideally also AI agents and tool calling

• Experience taking systems from prototype to production and understand the difference between a demo and something that has to be stable for real customers every day

• Enough understanding of frontend (React/TypeScript) to build a full-stack solution yourself

• Comfortable working independently and making decisions without everything being specified upfront

• Fluent in English spoken and written. Norwegian is a plus not a requirement

You need to be comfortable occasionally traveling to hotels and customer meetings.

We build on Python and FastAPI on the backend LLMs and AI agents evals and grounding React/TypeScript on the frontend and run on Google Cloud. You dont need to have worked with exactly this before but its a plus.

Were an early-stage technology company and specific frameworks and tools can be learned on the job. Either way youll have real influence on the technical choices we make going forward.

Why ALTEK AI

• Real influence as our first internal engineer alongside two technical co-founders

• Work with the latest LLM and AI agent technologies in production and with real customers

• Ambition to build a large international technology company not just a small local SaaS business

• Great timing: product customers revenue and capital are in place while the team is still small enough that you truly matter

• A meaningful equity stake in the company for the right candidate

• Close to customers with fast feedback on what you build in an international and social industry

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