Software Engineer, Full Stack

Exa is an applied AI lab building a search engine unlike the world has ever seen. We build massive-scale infra to crawl the entire web train state-of-the-art embedding models to process it and design super high performant vector databases to retrieve over it. We now power search for Cursor Cognition HubSpot and over 400000 developers and have raised $350m from Lightspeed Benchmark and a16z.

Our ultimate goal is to build perfect search over all the worlds information far beyond Google. If you want to build massive-scale ML systems that will define the way the new AI world consumes information this is the place for you.

As a Full Stack Engineer at Exa youll work on everything developers and agents touch when they use our product. That includes our developer dashboard APIs SDKs and the rest of our developer platform.

Who You Are

• Youre a strong generalist engineer comfortable owning the product lifecycle from design to deploy

• Youre fluent in TypeScript with a strong eye for front-end design and comfortable learning new tools and technology as the work calls for it

• Youve designed and maintained backend APIs that real users and customers depend on

• Youve shipped products for LLMs AI agents or other systems used by many people

• You care about the problem of finding high quality information and recognize how important this is for the world

What You Could Do

• Build agentic onboarding flows that quickly get developers (and their agents) from sign-up to first integration

• Shape the Exa API and SDKs into the cleanest most ergonomic agentic search platform in the ecosystem

• Architect the API gateway that every Exa request flows through

• Build account billing permissions and provisioning surfaces our enterprise customers need

Logistics

• Location: This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.

• Visas: Were happy to sponsor international candidates (e.g. STEM OPT OPT H1B O1 E3). While we cannot guarantee your visa we have historically been successful in sponsoring candidates from all over the world. If you receive an offer our team will work hard to get you a visa.

• Benefits: We offer premium healthcare benefits (medical dental vision) fertility benefits 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents and a monthly wellness stipend to all of our employees.

Required Experience:

IC