Yask Founding Software Engineer

Gitwit•Bentonville, AR

8d•$170,000 - $195,000•Onsite

About The Position

Yask is building an AI-powered operating system to address challenges in physical operations (stores, warehouses, routes, facilities) where constant change, distributed responsibility, and lost follow-through lead to expensive problems. The role involves developing an adaptive system that learns from real-world signals, remembers context, orchestrates decisions, and improves from feedback. The initial focus is on retail and distribution, tackling issues like out-of-stocks and missed execution tasks. The company has a live design partner with operations across multiple locations, meaning the work is grounded in real-world workflows and operational pressure, not just theoretical use cases. This is a founding, hands-on software engineering role focused on evolving an existing product into a scalable, production-ready platform.

Requirements

Built and shipped production software in a startup or high-growth environment.
Strong experience with TypeScript, React, and React Native.
Experience building or scaling a mobile application used by real customers.
Experience integrating modern LLM APIs into production products.
Understanding of concepts like retrieval, memory, and context engineering through practical experience.
Experience helping take products from early traction through rapid iteration and growth.
Worked closely with founders or held technical leadership responsibilities within a startup.
Comfortable making pragmatic engineering decisions that prioritize customer value.
Enjoy ownership, ambiguity, and building alongside customers instead of behind closed doors.
Enjoy ambiguity when it’s paired with real ownership.
Desire to be a founding engineer, not a ticket-taker.
See Bentonville as a strategic advantage, not a compromise.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Node.js
Experience with PostgreSQL
Experience with modern LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, and others)
Experience with retrieval and memory architectures
Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP)

Responsibilities

Build and enhance the existing React web application and React Native mobile application.
Write clean, maintainable TypeScript across frontend and backend systems.
Expand the platform architecture as the company grows from early customer validation toward a scalable production product.
Design and implement agent workflows, memory systems, and retrieval pipelines that improve operational decision-making.
Build feedback loops that allow the product to improve from customer interactions and field data.
Ship production-grade APIs, backend services, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and security improvements.
Instrument telemetry to measure usage quality, task success, system performance, and customer outcomes.
Work closely with product, design, leadership, and customers to rapidly build, test, and iterate on new capabilities.
Document architectural decisions and help establish engineering practices that will support future team growth.