About Us

• We’re building an AI agent for e-commerce: https://zipchat.ai
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• We believe the LLM revolution will transform how humanity shops—we’re figuring out exactly how.
• We work with hundreds of brands. We’re bootstrapped, “default-alive,” and focused on innovation in the AI/e-commerce space.
• We have a Shopify app and a WhatsApp app, but we’re built on open standards so we can support all kinds of merchants.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong productivity in our tech stack:
  • Ruby on Rails 💎
  • Hotwire / ViewComponent ⚡
  • REST/GraphQL APIs
  • Experience with Shopify or Meta APIs is a plus ➕
• Communication:
  • English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 — able to communicate smoothly
  • Proactive communication—flag issues early, unblock yourself, and collaborate effectively
• Mindset:
  • Ownership—wants to take responsibility
  • Product mindset—build what people want and ship from 0 to 1
  • “Hackerman” attitude—we work with many third parties, so you should be able to navigate constraints and find workarounds
  • Embrace the chaos—prioritize delivering value to customers over perfectly clean code. Make your mom proud, not your fellow dev friends! 🤘

What You’ll Be Doing

• Implementing business logic and features
• Building UI for customers, merchants, and admins
• Managing integrations with Shopify, Meta, and others

Why Join

• Get equity in the business
• Freedom to build in your own way
• See your impact in real time through a fast feedback loop
• Join a small startup with big ambitions

Why Not Join

• We’re not a very social workplace—everyone works independently and syncs as needed (ad hoc)
• You’ll be expected to ship 🚢🚢🚢

Work Process

• We aim to deploy to production every day.
  • We truly believe in “ship fast and break things.”
  • And also: “monitor your own work and fix it if something breaks.” 🙂
  • Innovation speed is our top priority. We don’t know what will be useful to merchants yet, so we ship, collect feedback, ship again, and so on.
• We’re a micro team.
  • We’re currently three founders, one of whom is technical.
  • You’ll work closely with the technical founder.
• You have flexibility in how you work.
  • Fully remote
  • No fixed working hours (CET is our reference/anchor time)
  • Expected to spend about 30 productive hours* per week on the project
  • No one cares about moonlighting or side gigs—or whether you want to surf during the day—as long as you do your job
• You’ll write code 99% of the time—minimal bureaucracy.
  • No meetings unless necessary (async chat or Loom is preferred)
  • No formal planning, deadlines, sprints, or methodologies—we pick the next task and try to ship it ASAP
• You’ll solve problems independently—no babysitting.
  • You’ll be given “shaped” features (not overly specific, not overly vague)
  • You’ll need to figure out how to build them based on our product philosophy
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  • No one will manage you—you’ll need to get things done or proactively ask for help

*Productive hours: time spent actually working. We use Toggl to track time.

Shaped features: see https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.1-chapter-02

Compensation

• $6k per month ($72,000/year) (before tax)
• Stock options (Delaware C-corp)

Application Process

• Submit the form
• Meet-and-greet call (30–60 minutes)
  • We’ll see if we work well together and whether it’s a good fit
• Two-week paid contract ($2k)
  • We believe the only way to know if we’re a good fit is to work together
  • We’ll hire you for two weeks and evaluate what we can achieve together
  • Afterward, both sides can decide whether to continue
• Sign the contract