Let’s work together

Interested in building a better customs experience for all? Us too! Here are the roles we are hiring for today:

Job Title: Founding Engineer

Location: Hybrid or Remote

Department: Engineering

Reports To: CTO

Who we are:

Importal is a tech-enabled U.S. Customs broker who is transforming the industry. We are looking for a Founding Engineer who wants to get in at the ground floor, make your mark on building the foundation, and contribute to the growth of a new company.

Job Summary:

A day in the life: You will report to the CTO. You will collaborate with the Product Manager, our in-house Customs Brokers, and our customers to understand their needs and translate them into working features.

Minimum Qualifications & Requirements:

  • High Ownership Attitude

  • Ability to be dynamic - we are a pre-seed startup in build mode and we need someone to hit the ground running even if that means a different thing consistently.

  • Be coachable - we are all a team, and we all can improve! 

  • 4+ years experience working in technology

  • A College Degree is preferred but not required

Skills:

  • Advanced knowledge of git

  • Experience using GCP, AWS or Azure in depth

  • Experience with Material UI

  • Experience with Node.JS and Express

  • Experience building User Interfaces in any one of the following (React preferred)

    • Angular

    • Vue

    • React

  • Advanced knowledge of at least 2 widely used programming languages (see examples)

    • Python

    • Typescript

    • Java

    • Golang

    • C#

  • Intimate experience with at least 2 widely used database engines (see examples)

    • Oracle

    • Postgres

    • MongoDB

  • Understanding of Infrastructure as Code

  • Experience or understanding of using terraform to automate cloud infrastructure

Bonus:

  • Devops / Cloud Architect experience with LLMs or open source models

  • LLMs / open source models Observability expertise

  • Experience architecting RAG tools

  • Experience fine-tuning models

  • Experience architecting vector databases for RAG/LLM use cases

  • Experience interacting with Open AI or Anthropic Embeddings/Assistant APIs or 

  • Experience architecting or working with a data lake

  • Experience in the startup space

Compensation: $125,000 - $165,000

Benefits

  • Healthcare

  • Equity

  • Excellent work culture

  • Building a greenfield product

Apply here: