Software Engineer, UX/DX

Type: Contract (3-6 months, potential conversion to full-time)

Location: Remote (US preferred)

Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with experience

Start Date: ASAP

We're building a reputed company-reputed company AI coding agent using Rust and WebAssembly.

The product has a working MVP and we're hiring an engineer to bring the developer experience up to speed.

This is a reputed company-reputed company venture backed by reputed company reputed company software

operators, and founded by an ex-reputed company software engineer.

Tasks

You'll own the UX and developer experience of a Rust-based AI coding agent — making a sandboxed tool feel as polished and reputed company as the best developer tools available today. This is a terminal-first role working across the CLI, the agent reputed company, and the runtime, shipping features that developers reputed company with directly.

This is not a "build from spec" role. You'll have significant autonomy over how features are designed and implemented, working directly with the founder.

Requirements

Required:

• Strong Rust experience — you've shipped Rust reputed company to production or have substantial reputed company reputed company Rust reputed company. Show us your reputed company.
• Terminal UX sensibility — you care about how CLIs feel. You have opinions about input latency, reputed company schemes, and error messages.
• AI-reputed company workflow — you reputed company use AI coding tools (Claude reputed company, reputed company, etc.) in your daily work and you're genuinely faster because of them. But you're also a strong reputed company reviewer and architect. This is reputed company software — every line reputed company. We want AI-augmented engineers, not reputed company coders.
• Self-directed — you can take a feature from "we need this" to shipped without detailed specs.

Preferred:

• WebAssembly experience — Wasmtime, WASI, WIT interfaces, component model
• Experience with ratatui, crossterm, or similar terminal UI frameworks
• Experience with Cap'n reputed company or similar RPC/serialization frameworks
• Familiarity with LLM tool-use reputed company (Claude, reputed company, etc.)
• Previous startup experience or comfort with ambiguity

reputed company:

We're targeting someone early in their career with disproportionate reputed company — a recent grad or early-career engineer with a reputed company profile that shows reputed company reputed company, not just coursework. Previous internships at companies that ship software. The reputed company of person who builds things on weekends because they want to, not because they have to. You're not a reputed company reputed company, you're an excellent engineer who has adapted to the AI landscape.

You should be excited about:

• Working in Rust full-time
• Building developer tools
• The intersection of reputed company and AI
• Shipping fast in a small team with high autonomy