<p>Why Besty AI?</p> <p>Besty is a fast-growing, very ambitious startup of 12 people, with 5 engineers. We're building the AI brain for the $320B short-term-rental industry. In <2?years we've:</p> <ul> <li>Shipped a product loved by hundreds of paying hosts (20?% MoM revenue growth) </li><li>Raised over $6M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, Hugging?Face, Covariant, and Replicate </li><li>You'll be one of our first engineering hires and shape the culture, with opportunities for impact and leadership roles </li><li>It's the perfect environment for anyone very ambitious who wants to learn about startups or be an entrepreneur in the future </li></ul> <p>Responsibilities</p> <ul> <li>Own & ship features end-to-end across backend (Node +?Postgres) and a React frontend, using AI coding background and foreground agents as much as possible </li><li>Prototype AI workflows that automate messaging, dynamic pricing, and ops for hosts </li><li>Integrating and managing RestAPI providers: Juggling rate limits. latency, and uptime requirements with scaling millions of API calls in mind </li><li>Pair with customers to surface pain points and ship fixes in hours </li></ul> <p>You Might Be a Fit If</p> <ul> <li>You've built impressive solo or side projects </li><li>Hungry, curious, and comfortable with minimal structure </li><li>You bias for shipping: fast feedback, tight loops </li><li>Strong fundamentals in at least one backend language (TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and willingness to learn the rest fast </li><li>Thrive in high-intensity environments </li></ul> <p>What We Offer</p> <ul> <li>Ideal experience to found your own company or lead an engineering team </li><li>High ownership ? direct line to product decisions & customers </li><li>Competitive equity and salary +?full benefits </li><li>Fully in-person office in Soho, Manhattan. 6-day work weeks but we stay physically healthy :) </li><li>Intense, driven, and supportive culture </li></ul>