AI Native Software Engineer

Slingshot AI

Slingshot AI is the team behind Ash the first AI designed for mental health. Our mission is to make support more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want.

Were building a world-class team by empowering individuals with the autonomy flexibility and support they need to do their best work. We dream big iterate fast and care deeply. If that sounds like you wed love to hear from you.

Our team spans machine learning product engineering conversational design clinical growth and operations with offices in both New York City and London.

Were a well-funded Series A company having raised $93M from Andreessen Horowitz Radical Ventures Forerunner Ventures plus top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs Captions Shopify Plaid Notion Canva Twitch Airtable and many others.

The role

Were looking for early-career engineers who are exceptional builders. Youre a year or two into your first job and you have evidence already that youre brilliant that you build and that youre on a fast growth trajectory.

The Slingshot team consists entirely of experienced engineers so youll be joining as one of a few select early-career engineers. Youll thrive at Slingshot when you show up hungry take ownership from day one and treat every problem as yours to solve. Youll ship to real users in your first weeks and grow faster here than you would anywhere else. Well give you scope as fast as you can take it.

Our tech stack uses Kotlin for core backend services Python for our ML work Dart/Flutter for the app for internal tooling as well as Rust for low level media streaming. We use gRPC and GCP (Kubernetes Cloud Run) as our primary cloud provider. Youre not required to be an expert in any of these and wed like you to come with a learning mindset and to not be afraid of getting your hands dirty with whatever tool the job might require.

What youll do

Youll learn fast and build constantly. Concretely youll:

• Ship features to the Ash app that users interact with end to end (app backend through our modelling stack)

• Build internal tooling that enables our whole team letting our designers ship for themselves our trust and safety people scale themselves with AI and turn ideas into live products faster than anyone would think possible

• Push our AI-native development forward finding where AI can allow one person to do the work of five.

• Work closely with leadership to run Slingshot as an AI-native company not just one that builds AI.

What we look for

We index on evidence of intelligence and builder energy. That looks like:

• Youve won (or placed well at) hackathons.

• Youve launched products that real people used whether side projects open-source tools or something you sold.

• You have high test scores competition results or another clear signal of raw ability.

• You write code because you cant help it and you have the repos demos and shipped work to prove it.

Our team typically works long hours expect to be in the office most days (we have a beautiful office and all eat lunch together) and to put in well beyond a standard week

Dont have the evidence yet Build something.

If you dont have a project to point to thats fine: show us instead. Build something record a short demo video and send us a link to the repo. That will tell us more than your CV ever could.

Not sure what to build Here are some ideas where wed love to see an open-source app:

• An open-source Loom (screen camera recording and easy sharing)

• An open-source Granola (AI meeting notes)

• A receipt and expense scanner

• A QR code generator

• A Slackmoji generator powered by AI

• Background removal from images

• A PDF toolkit: merge split compress rotate and sign

• An expense splitter like Splitwise

• An AI teleprompter for calls that guides you on what to say like Cluely

• ... anything that involves learning something new and building something valuable

What we offer:

• A chance to join a passionate tight-knit team working on something to change the world

• Competitive compensation (top of personal market)

• Travel between our NYC / London offices

• Usual startup perks like free lunch and coffee in office generous learning budget

• We cover your personal therapy

Required Experience:

IC