About the role

At Onton, we’re building the future of product search and discovery. It takes the average shopper 79 days to make a >$50 purchase decision, and we’re taking that to less than 1. You’ll have the chance to craft a decision-making experience that people love. With the engine you build, Onton will scale to 10M users, 100M products, and almost 1B searches/year — and beyond.

If you’re energized, not daunted, by solving hard problems, shipping code constantly, and the prospect of building Amazon + Google’s replacement, this role is for you.

You have the opportunity to:

• Build across every layer of the stack — web app, container, infrastructure, etc.

• Be individually responsible for over 1M users as we scale.

• Create a culture of high standards and continuous improvement. Nothing is someone else’s problem.

• Stay up to date on the latest technologies and techniques to continually enhance our system, you, and the rest of the team.
  

We expect you to:

• Have 3+ years of Software Engineering experience with deep experience architecting and scaling performance, high-uptime systems.

• Quickly and iteratively ship code that is correct, robust, scalable, and maintainable. As much as we love elegant code, we’re not optimizing for that. We take pride in the excellence of the product we build.

• Balance craft and velocity. Incur technical debt intentionally and pay it off as soon as possible.

• Default to assembling from parts before building from scratch.

• Feel as allergic to complexity (e.g. infrastructure sprawl) as we are.
  

We’d love it if you:

• Have Clojure experience. If not, no problem; motivated engineers learn it quickly.

• Enjoy giving high-level abstractions low-level performance.

Location

We are remote (today) but not distant. We operate on Pacific Time. We’re building hubs in San Francisco, CA, and Salt Lake City, UT, so we can connect in person. Our team works 3-days a week in one of the hubs. We’re offering relocation compensation as we build density in these areas.

About Onton

We’re pioneering the next generation of e-commerce search. Since launching our product publicly last year, we’ve grown exponentially to hundreds of thousands of users.

More recently, we’ve built the foundation of a neurosymbolic AI in-house that dramatically increases search accuracy. In 2025, we plan to use this technology to expand into new categories and grow to 10M+ MAU.

To support expansion, we’ve raised $10M+ in funding. Our most recent Seed round was led by a top-tier firm and a supporting cast of well-known VCs and individuals with backgrounds from Amazon, Google, Stitch Fix, Whatnot, Stripe, Honey, Shopify, and more!