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  • Strategic Project Lead – Growth & Operations

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Strategic Project Lead – Growth & Operations San Francisco | OnSite COMPANY SNAPSHOT - Datacurve https://datacurve.ai/ - Datacurve creates high quality data for foundation model labs through a gamified platform called Shipd, with a current focus strongly on coding data. Datacurve has scaled from 0 to near 8 figures in annualized run rate in less than 1 year with a 5 people team with a 80-90% profit margin (2-3x above industry average). They recently raised $15m at a $150m valuation Series A (unannounced), doubling the team to 10 people in the past 1-2 months. Notable investors: Y Combinator, VP of Research at Google Deepmind, researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, CEO of Vercel, Replit, Cohere, and Redis. - shipd.ai https://shipd.ai/ - We turn data‑creation tasks into paid bounties on our platform. For contracts at scale, we run “quests” on the platform, allowing contributors to solve and win bounties. We support shorter projects by managing contractors. We're seeking a Growth person to scale out both users/contributors and contractors. WHY JOIN US? - Play a pivotal role in building the infrastructure that powers the next generation of AI - Own strategy and execution in one of the company's most critical growth areas - Work alongside experienced founders, operators, and technologists - Join a mission-driven team in a fast-moving, high-impact environment YOUR MISSION Develop and own the strategy and execution to grow our contributor pool from 16,000 to 100,000+, with a focus on acquiring and activating vetted expert contributors (e.g., coders). At the same time,

  • Software Engineer - Developer Experience

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Software Engineer - Developer Experience San Francisco | OnSite We're building a gamified developer platform where tens of thousands of engineers create high‑fidelity datasets that push LLM frontiers. This role owns the technical lifecycle of data pipelines-from defining new data formats with partner labs to shipping the tooling, environments, docs, and QA that make those formats real at scale. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own projects end-to-end, from initial prototyping to ongoing maintenance, bug fixing, and iteration based on feedback. - Own developer experience pipelines end‑to‑end: Prototype tooling for collecting new data formats → productionize workflow → iterate from developer experience - Champion DX: Create clear, concise guidelines and documentation to empower our data contributors and ensure high-quality inputs for your projects. - Quality & governance: Develop and manage the quality standards for your projects, which includes training and aligning content reviewers to ensure data consistency and accuracy. Implement automated checks, eval harnesses, reviewer workflows, and data quality bars; be hands on and in the weeds to align with reviewers on standards. - Maintain & iterate: Monitor, debug, and continuously improve reliability, latency, and contributor success rates. WHAT YOU'LL DO SOMETIMES - Define Frontier data formats: Co‑author specs/RFCs with frontier lab researchers; design schemas, metadata, and versioning for new task/trajectory formats. - Build developer tooling & environments: Ship tooling, sandboxes, CLIs/SDKs, and capture/instrumentation to make contribution flows fast and safe. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Excellent written communication skills, with a proven ability to explain complex concepts to a

  • Founding Recruiter

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Founding Recruiter San Francisco | OnSite We're building a gamified developer platform where tens of thousands of engineers create high-fidelity datasets that push LLM frontiers. Recruiting is mission-critical to scaling this vision. As our Founding Recruiter, you'll build the function from zero: systems, process, and brand. You'll start as a player-coach-sourcing, selling, and closing top talent-then grow into leading a team that scales with us. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build recruiting from scratch: Design and implement the tools, processes, brand, and training to scale hiring. - Own full-cycle recruiting: Source, assess, sell, and close candidates across technical (AI/ML/Eng) and ops roles. - Be a player-coach: Execute searches hands-on today, while building the roadmap for a future team. - Improve speed and quality: Shorten time-to-fill, track funnel metrics, and instill rigor into every stage of hiring. - Champion candidate experience: Protect our brand, ensure fast response times, and run a respectful, engaging process. - Run great intakes: Partner with hiring managers to deeply understand roles, set priorities, and flex across disciplines. - Source creatively: Go beyond LinkedIn (GitHub, niche forums, personal networks) to surface hidden talent. - Close strategically: Tailor the pitch to each candidate's motivations, explain equity/comp packages, and win against competition. - Teach & train: Help the team interview well, legally, and fairly; build structured processes and rubrics. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Proven full-cycle recruiting experience, especially in technical roles. - Startup experience-ideally as a founding or first recruiter, with bias toward small-company breadth over big-company

  • Strategic Project Lead

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Strategic Project Lead San Francisco | OnSite ABOUT THIS ROLE At Datacurve, we're pushing the capabilities of AI by creating top quality coding data with the world's leading foundation model labs. We've built a gamified developer platform to empower tens of thousands of coders around the world to join us on this mission. As Strategic Project Lead, you will be at the center of our growth initiatives and supply-side operations. In this role, you'll design and scale creative growth strategies to attract and onboard the world's best developers. Your work will involve building scalable operational systems, creating engaging incentive structures, and leading initiatives that activate our global developer community. This is the role for you if you're excited by fast-paced environments and eager to blend strategic thinking, operational rigor, and creative experimentation to drive meaningful outcomes. You'll directly impact Datacurve's growth trajectory, developer engagement, and the successful delivery of mission-critical client projects. WHAT YOU'LL DO: - Strategic Growth - Explore inbound growth channels that garner interest from top devs around the world - Build pipelines for outreach that are highly scalable and yield quick conversions onto our platform - Design user acquisition funnels that minimize drop offs at each stage while ensuring reliable screening and seamless onboarding - Supply-side Operations - Build operational infrastructure that mobilizes thousands of devs to engage with our platform - Launch exciting projects, incentive structures, daily challenges, and other fun activities to engage our users - Foster a kind, ambitious, and hard-working community of developers

  • Product Engineer

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Product Engineer San Francisco | OnSite Shipd is our gamified data collection platform that transforms boring annotation into an addictive, competitive experience. 16,000+ contributors have signed up organically because “nerds want to get paid to code.” With quest-based campaigns, bounty rewards, streaks, and community features, Shipd aims to attracts the best talent for complex data production. Now we're looking for a Product Engineer to help us scale the platform into the “Duolingo for coding bounties” or “Kaggle but paid” WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build the Quest Builder system: Create reusable components, UI generators, and multi-step pipelines that shrink quest setup from a week to a day. - Own developer experience tooling: Extend our VS Code fork, browser extension (Moody Blues), and trace viewer to capture long-form coding workflows with full observability. - Scale the data flywheel: Design features that make the platform engaging enough to bring friends, raise quality through competition, and support any data format without starting from scratch. - Engineer quality at scale: Improve our three-tier eval system (automation, judge models, human review), build real-time feedback, and empower top contributors to become reviewers. - Ship addictive experiences: Blend game mechanics, developer tools, and marketplace dynamics into products that make hours-long data tasks feel rewarding. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Strong product engineering experience-you can own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and data. - A knack for building systems that scale-infrastructure, pipelines, and abstractions that work across many use cases. - Experience with developer tools (e.g., IDEs,

  • Backend Engineer

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Backend Engineer San Francisco | OnSite We're building a gamified developer platform empowering tens of thousands of coders to compete in exciting software engineering challenges - all while pushing the frontier of LLMs! As a Backend Engineer, you'll become part of a passionate, fast moving team dedicated to solving challenging technical problems, designing engaging gamification experiences, and shaping the foundations to support the collective effort of developers worldwide. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Lead technical discussions, guide architectural decisions, and identify opportunities for improvement across backend systems - Architect robust infrastructure to efficiently handle high volumes of user interactions, data processing, and real-time competition data - Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and product managers to deliver seamless user experiences - Optimize backend performance, reliability, and scalability to support rapid growth and evolving product requirements - Establish backend engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and documentation WHAT YOU HAVE - 3+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend systems and APIs - Solid understanding of distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and event-driven architectures - Experience designing APIs and backend services using Go - Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services on AWS - Proficiency with IaaC tools (e.g., Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines - Expertise designing relational database schemas, optimizing SQL queries, and managing database performance and integrity - Excellent collaboration and proactive communication skills NICE TO HAVES - Experience with Kubernetes and orchestration of containerized applications - Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus,

  • Senior Frontend Engineer

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Senior Frontend Engineer San Francisco | OnSite We're building a gamified developer platform empowering tens of thousands of coders to compete in exciting software engineering challenges - all while pushing the frontier of LLMs! As a Senior Frontend Engineer, you'll become part of a passionate, fast moving team dedicated to solving challenging technical problems, designing engaging gamification experiences, and shaping the foundations to support the collective effort of developers worldwide. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Design and implement intuitive, attractive, and engaging user interfaces that captivate developers - Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to build seamless gamified experiences and interactive coding challenges - Architect scalable frontend solutions, ensuring maintainability, performance, and reliability as our platform rapidly grows - Drive frontend best practices, code quality, and mentorship within the engineering team - Continuously experiment, iterate, and optimize user experiences based on data-driven insights and user feedback WHAT YOU HAVE - 3+ years of experience building scalable, performant frontend applications using React and TypeScript - Strong proficiency in styling responsive, attractive user interfaces with Tailwind CSS - Solid understanding of data fetching, state management, and API integration using GraphQL - Proven ability to architect maintainable, modular frontend codebases and establish best practices - Experience building and maintaining reusable component libraries and frontend design systems - Familiarity with frontend testing frameworks and best practices (e.g., Vitest, React Testing Library, MSW) - Passion for crafting delightful user experiences and attention to detail in UI/UX design - A proactive mindset, iterating quickly

  • Software Engineer – Full Stack

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Software Engineer – Full Stack San Francisco | OnSite We're building a gamified developer platform empowering tens of thousands of coders to compete in exciting software engineering challenges that push the frontier of LLMs As a Full Stack Engineer, you'll become part of a passionate, fast moving team dedicated to solving challenging technical problems, designing engaging gamification experiences, and shaping the foundations to support the collective effort of developers worldwide. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and maintain end-to-end features across our frontend and backend systems - Architect scalable, performant backend services and intuitive, responsive frontend interfaces to support real-time coding competitions and engaging interactions - Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and engineers across the stack to rapidly ship impactful features - Lead technical discussions, guide architectural decisions, and identify opportunities for improvement across the entire stack - Establish engineering best practices, including code quality, testing, observability, and documentation WHAT YOU HAVE - 3+ years of experience building scalable, performant full stack applications in production environments - Strong proficiency in building frontends using React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS - Experience designing performance and secure APIs and backend services using Go - Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services (AWS) and Docker - A proactive mindset, comfortable iterating quickly based on user feedback NICE TO HAVES - Familiarity with IaaC using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines - Experience designing secure code execution environments and implementing sandboxing techniques - Interest or experience in gamification, competitive programming, or developer-focused platforms

  • Founding Design Engineer

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Founding Design Engineer San Francisco | OnSite Shipd is our gamified data collection platform that transforms boring annotation into an addictive, competitive experience. With quests, bounties, and leaderboards, Shipd attracts the best contributors for complex data tasks -- and now we need a Founding Design Engineer to take our current platform and turn it into a polished, scalable system. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build design systems: Create custom design systems and reusable UI components that support many data formats and workflows. - Own the Quest Builder: Engineer multi-step agent workflows and UI generation that make setup fast, consistent, and scalable. - Tackle complex UX challenges: Design for 6+ hour coding sessions, competitive programming culture, and real-time telemetry. - Ship gamification features: Build leaderboards, streaks, bounties, and community mechanics that drive engagement. - Engineer developer tooling interfaces: Extend VS Code forks, browser extensions, and trace viewers with performant, developer native-feeling UI/UX. - Ship without handoffs: Combine design + engineering to move fast, iterate, and polish. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Proven track record building 0→1 products and design systems from scratch. - Background in developer tools, gamification platforms, or complex marketplaces. - Ability to think like both a designer and an engineer-balancing aesthetics, interaction, and performance. - A founding mentality: scrappy, equity-motivated, excited to work hard to build something lasting. CHARACTERISTICS WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Hybrid thinker: part game designer, part engineer. - Obsession with functional complexity, not just pretty UI. - Curiosity about developer psychology and how to

  • Engineering Manager

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Engineering Manager San Francisco | OnSite Shipd is our gamified data collection platform where contributors take on quests, bounties, and challenges that feel like the best developer and gamification experience. With rapidly scaling annualized run rate and a small 6-person engineering team, we're now scaling fast. We need an Engineering Manager who can grow the org to 12-15 engineers, keep technical quality high, and stay hands-on while building the systems that will carry us to $70M+ ARR. You'll still code, design systems, and make technical tradeoffs while managing velocity in the engineering team. But you'll also set the structure, processes, hiring bar, and culture for our next phase of growth. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Scale the team: Hire 5+ engineers in the next few months, build interview processes, and create technical assessments. - Map people to projects: Balance short-term delivery for 6-7 figure commercial contracts with long-term platform investments. - Stay hands-on: Write code, review design docs, and make system-level architecture decisions. - Lead technical direction: Balance “last mile” customer features with general platform improvements. - Own engineering velocity: Build lightweight processes (sprints, demos, delivery tracking) that improve coordination without slowing us down. - Ensure quality delivery: Oversee execution for customer contracts with tight SLAs; manage on-call, emergency fixes, and stability. - Coordinate across teams: Align core product engineering with frontier data engineering pipelines. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Strong background as a senior engineer who moved into management. - Hands-on experience with React, Next.js, TypeScript (our stack).

  • Founding Growth

    San Francisco | OnSite

    onsite Salary not disclosed

    Founding Growth San Francisco | OnSite Shipd is our gamified data collection platform where contributors take on quests, bounties, and challenges that feel like an engaging and addictive experience. 16,000+ engineers have signed up organically, and now we need a Founding Growth hire to scale this community into the engine that powers frontier AI labs. Your mission: solve the supply-side scaling problem --getting more sign ups, convert signups into engaged, retained contributors, build systems that multiply output, and create the “data flywheel” where contributors are so motivated they bring their friends. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Scale the contributor base: Recruit specialized talent (e.g., cybersecurity, ML, domain experts) through creative, non-traditional channels. - Convert signups into active contributors: Build onboarding funnels, training systems, and engagement loops for complex, hours-long tasks. - Build retention systems: Keep top contributors engaged through competitions, leaderboards, recognition, and community dynamics. - Design community infrastructure: Promote contributors to trainers/reviewers, run challenges, and make the ecosystem self-reinforcing. - Engineer incentives: Go beyond payments-design viral referral mechanics, gamification, and status-driven rewards. - Be data-driven: Build contributor lifecycle tracking, run cohort analyses, and design A/B tests for engagement and retention features. - Scale operations: Develop 0→1 playbooks, hire community managers, and handle white-glove delivery for lab contracts while automating long-term systems. YOU'LL SUCCEED HERE IF YOU HAVE - Experience growing two-sided marketplaces, consumer apps with high friction, developer products, creator economies, or gig/freelancer platforms (supply-side bias). - A track record of building engaged communities- develop