Founding Senior Engineer
📍 New York City (In-Person, Full-Time) | Competitive Salary + Equity + Benefits (Lunch and Dinner)
Meela is an AI voice companion for seniors, backed by Bain Capital Ventures, and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and CBS. We are building a phone-based AI companion that brings intelligent, emotionally attuned conversation to seniors—people often left behind by traditional tech.
We’re building Meela with love, purpose, and deep technical ambition: pushing the limits of large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and personalized memory systems. Every call from Meela is a chance to make someone feel seen, heard, and remembered.
What You'll Do
- Architect and build full-stack features across a voice-first AI platform—from backend memory pipelines to intuitive tools for conversation review and analysis.
- Design reliable infrastructure to support AI companions that stay helpful, personal, and engaging over hundreds of calls with the same user.
- Work across the stack using Python, React, vector databases (Pinecone), and LLM tools to create production-ready systems.
- Collaborate directly with the CEO on product strategy and the CTO on technical design.
- Wear multiple hats—this is a founding role, and you'll shape everything from engineering practices to product culture.
- Continuously improve Meela’s AI quality through data tooling, observability, and iteration on how we personalize memory and conversation flows.
What You Bring
- Full-stack engineering experience with a strong backend focus; experience in early-stage environments or having shipped entire systems solo.
- Fluency in Python and ReactJS, and confidence working with modern web frameworks and API design.
- Experience (or deep interest) in LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and/or conversational AI systems.
- A mind for scalable design, clean abstractions, and operational excellence.
- Strong product intuition and the ability to translate user experience into technical architecture.
- A builder’s spirit: hands-on, proactive, and takes ownership like a founder.
- Deep alignment with our mission to improve the lives of older adults.
Why Meela
- Your work will be felt—every line of code will improve someone’s day.
- You’ll build the kind of product that your family would love, and that society needs.
What We Offer
- The opportunity to build something that actually makes a real impact, every day.
- Six figure competitive base salary + meaningful equity.
- Full health, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401k.
- Commuter Benefit.
- Paid lunch every day (office-based role in NYC).
- Office-based role (NYC) with a tight-knit, mission-driven team.
- Salary range $150,000 - $225,000.
How to Apply
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Additional Information
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