Company Overview

Realm is an AI platform for mining companies that reduces costly downtime and increases yield, unlocking millions in profit. Realm integrates with existing cameras, sensors, and control systems to detect and predict equipment failures, flag unsafe behavior, automate responses, and notify key personnel. Our customers include major American coal mines as well as gemstones and oil & gas operations internationally.

What You’ll Do

• Build backend services in TypeScript

• Build TypeScript/React user interfaces for web and mobile

• Deeply understand our product and users. Translate real-world operational challenges into intuitive, high-impact features.

• Deploy AI technology at large mines

• Work with our CEO, former CTO and cofounder of Blend Labs ($1B public company), learning to build a world-class engineering organization

As an engineer at an early-stage startup, your responsibilities will vary from week to week as priorities evolve. In general, your technical work will consist of:

• Backend (TypeScript) - 40%

• Web front-end (React) - 40%

• Mobile front-end (React Native) - 10%

• Infrastructure and tools (Kubernetes) - 10%

What We’re Looking For

Must-Have Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in a professional software engineering role

• Strong coding skills, problem-solving ability, and grasp of computer science fundamentals

• Entrepreneurial work ethic, drive for excellence, and belief in meritocracy, personal responsibility, and hard work

• Experience and comfort working on a remote team

• Rapid delivery of high-quality work

• Enthusiasm for building at all levels of the stack, from low-level infrastructure details to high-level product work and wireframing

• Great judgment and intuition about security, testing, code quality, and tech debt

• Ability to design good generalizations while avoiding premature overengineering

• Appreciation of functional programming, continuous delivery, clean code, and automated testing

• Highly independent and able to come up to speed without heavy assistance

• Flexible work hours (occasional nights and weekends) when necessary to sprint for urgent deliverables

• Ability to handle multiple work streams and frequent context switching as priorities change

• Humility to learn from others while also being able to advocate for and execute on improvements you believe in

• Mastery of core development/infrastructure/DevOps tools (Git, Linux)

• US citizen or permanent resident (and based in the US)

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Startup experience

• Professional experience with our core development technologies (TypeScript, React, Postgres, Kubernetes)

• Strong network of top-tier engineers

Interview Process

1. Programming quiz

2. Live coding interviews (2-3)

   1. Algorithmic problem solving, coding, and performance analysis

   2. Simulated development task

3. Behavioral interview

4. Reference checks

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