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Founding Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a self-starter engineer who loves building new products in an iterative and fast-moving environment. In this role, you will be bringing our smartest matchmaking AI to world. You will also be building internal tools that's gonna be used by AIs. You will also collaborate closely with the product and research teams to create the structure of this innovative agentic system.

In this role, you will:

  • Own the development of new customer-facing social networking experience.

  • Collaborate with product designers, and leadership to create cutting-edge products.

  • Make internal tools for team as well as for AIs.

  • Optimize applications for speed and scale

Your background looks something like:

  • 3+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies

  • Proficiency with fundamental data structures and algorithms.

  • Proficiency with TypeScript, React, Next.js and/or other web technologies

  • Proficiency with some backend languages and frameworks
    (Typescript / bun is preferred, experience in Nest.js is a plus)

  • Experience with microservice architecture using a variety of infrastrctrue services like RabbitMQ.

  • Experience with non-relational databases. e.g., MongoDB & Redis

  • Experience in AI/ML pipelines (no specific stack required)

  • Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines

About Ditto

We are a team of young and passionate people building the future of social networking. Both co-founders dropped out of UC Berkeley in their freshman years to pursue this vision. We're starting with dating, where our AI handles everything from profile creation to scheduling actual dates. Also, we already went viral on every campus we launched.

With this vision, we've secured funding from Google and other Tier 1 VCs + incredible angels and have attracted brilliant minds from top universities and research labs from MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, and DeepMind. We're combining cutting-edge AI technology with thoughtful design to create experiences that genuinely improve how people connect.

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DATE POSTED
August 26, 2025
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