Proven Builder: You are a hands-on engineer with a strong track record of building and shipping impactful data and machine learning products.

Technical Depth: Deep technical command of Python (FastAPI) and/or React/TypeScript, alongside modern data tooling (e.g., Polars, SQL).

Relevant Experience: Experience with or a strong aptitude for developing search/ranking systems, large-scale web scraping, vector search (pgvector), and ML models (e.g., LightGBM).

Infrastructure Acumen: Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (e.g., Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, Docker) and MLOps basics.

Product Evolution: Ability to architect and drive the technical evolution of a product from initial lean MVPs (simple, technical) to a sophisticated, agentic system.

Team Leadership: Excitement to build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team from the ground up.

Startup Mindset: Possess extreme ownership, a bias for action, and thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous startup environment.