Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alpaca VC is building the technical infrastructure for a new kind of venture capital firm that leverages AI systems to enhance performance. The role involves architecting and owning AI systems end-to-end, with a focus on creating scalable solutions that impact fund performance directly.
Responsibilities
- Architectural ownership, you'll make real decisions about how systems are built, not implement someone else's spec
- Direct exposure to venture capital deal flow, LP relationships, and portfolio operations
- Work with leadership that understands technical tradeoffs and values engineering excellence
- Greenfield systems, you're building new infrastructure, not maintaining legacy code
- Path to platform business: deploy your systems across portfolio companies as a product
- Competitive compensation and the chance to shape the future of work by crafting your role directly
Skills
- 3-6 years of software engineering or technical product experience, with demonstrated ability to ship production systems
- Strong Python or other object oriented programming skills, you've written services that process real data, not just scripts
- Deep experience with APIs, webhooks, and integration architecture—you understand auth flows, rate limits, and failure modes
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) and prompt engineering for production use cases
- Familiarity with workflow orchestration
- Experience designing data models and working with CRMs and data models
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and the chance to shape the future of work by crafting your role directly
- Remote
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