Who? We are Sei, an AI-powered regulatory compliance platform. Since
launching, 2 months ago, we're live with large enterprises across the US,
Europe, and APAC and growing at double digits per month. We are backed by
world-class investors including Y Combinator, Tribe Capital, PayPal, Picus
Capital & Hashed. Pranay (CEO) and Ram (CTO) are the founders. We have
combined experience of 20+ years of building fintech, and tech products for
businesses & customers across the world at companies such as Deutsche Bank,
Cloud Kitchens, PayPal, TransferWise, and Amazon, among others. We are looking
for a lead or a principal engineer who will help shape the tech, product, and
culture of the company. We are currently working with a bunch of enterprise
customers and banks and are experiencing rapid growth. We are looking to hire
very senior engineers who can take our V1 into a more scaleable, robust
platform as we prepare for more growth. What to expect The tech stack looks
like the below (expect this to change as we scale): Python APIs and pipelines
for AI/ML Typescript for backend APIs Kafka, Spark, and data warehouses for ML
pipelines (spark on Python) AWS, GCP & Terraform You can expect to do all of
the following: Build clean, concise APIs for customer integrations, along with
the documentation Setup, run, scale, and maintain infrastructure Fool-proof
security across the stack - encryption, hashing, privacy, VPC, etc.
Infrastructure as code - build terraform scripts and ensure easy replication
of the infra across different regions Manage production deployments, logging,
and monitoring Setup on-call processes Mentor junior engineers Our values
Continuous 360 feedback: Everyone is expected to share constructive critical
feedback with everyone else, including the founders. Product-minded: Everyone
shares product ownership, so we expect everyone to do customer outreach,
support, and talk to customers for feedback and new features. Doers over
talkers: We spend time figuring out the right direction to take and then
execute very fast. No one is too “senior” to do a job - the CTO will code
every day, the CEO will sell every day and everyone takes care of customer
support on a schedule. We understand the difference between real work and
pretense. Humanity over everything else: We sell the product to businesses,
but in reality, we sell it to real humans on the other side. Our end customers
are consumers using the product through our UI or integrated with our APIs, so
we are building the world’s most human-centric company (no pun intended).
Kindness is expected and empathy is the core value we’re looking for. About
you We expect you to be an expert in Python and have built systems from
scratch. Solid 3+ years building production systems in Python is required. We
don’t read much into your CV, but rather see what you have done in your life
so far (side projects, open-source contributions, blogs, etc.). We don’t care
about degrees, the institutions you went to, or the companies you worked for
before. We are open to talking as long as you have put in the reps, good
judgment and clarity, align with our values, and have a strong track record of
thoughtful work. Understand the fundamentals of building and integrating APIs
and secure systems. You can take ownership of the tech stack from infra to
APIs and UIs and can optimize for both developer productivity and product
performance. We expect you to have worked with early-stage companies before (0
to 1 or 1 to 10), have an extremely strong bias for action, and have built
and/or scaled systems from scratch. We expect you to know about Generative AI
and LLMs. An ideal candidate should have tinkered with different models and
understand the different problems around hallucinations, token optimizations,
etc. Pay and benefits We offer a solid, competitive package (including early-
stage equity). We give you the flexibility to choose the split between cash
and equity. Why you should not join If you want to coast along and do the
minimal possible work. The work hours will be intense, we regularly work one
of the week-end days as well. It takes a lot of sweat to get a startup off the
ground and you will let the team down if you don’t pull up the socks. If you
cannot do intense work every day (with exceptions of course) - the above point
talks about the sheer quantity of the work, but this is more on the quality.
We have intentionally kept meetings to a bare minimum, so people can get into
their zones and be productive. But if this gets you distracted and you commit
half-assed things, then we might not be the right fit for you. If you are not
easy-going with the team. We have hired a team of people who are friendly and
help each other out. There is zero attitude in the team. We sometimes have
conflicting opinions on how things should be done, but at the end of the day
we disagree and still commit to doing the things that move the company
forward. If you cannot be with us in our office in Gurgaon at least 3 days a
week.
