Minimal AI

AI Agents for E-commerce Customer Support

Founding Engineer: Backend + AI-Focused Full-Stack Developer (NYC)

$150K - $250K0.50% - 2.25%New York, NY, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
Any (new grads ok)
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Next.js, Python, React, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Niek Hogenboom
Niek Hogenboom
Founder

About the role

You lean toward systems, AI infrastructure, and reliability. You’ll build the agent runtime, evals, and integration layer that let us scale.

What you’ll do

  • Ship production features across the stack
  • Work in tight loops: build → test → measure → refine
  • Use AI tools daily (Cursor, Claude, etc.) and push them further; automate glue work, generate scaffolds, build evals, multiply your own output
  • Take ownership of outcomes, not tickets

What we’re looking for

We don’t care about years of experience. We care that you can build.
You might be a fit if:

  • You can own features end-to-end and enjoy doing so
  • You ship fast and care about quality, clean architecture, solid tests, good UI
  • You’re resourceful and persistent, you figure things out
  • You’ve built things you’re proud of (products, open source, side projects)
  • You use AI tools daily and want to keep raising that bar
  • You think in systems and multipliers, not just tasks

Stack

  • Backend: Python, FastAPI, AWS
  • Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js

About the interview

  1. Intro Call – 30 mins with a founder
  2. Deep Dive – 45 mins on product & tech fit
  3. Technical Interview – 60 mins coding & design challenge
  4. Onsite Co-Work – Build and ship a real feature with us
  5. Offer

About Minimal AI

We’re building autonomous AI agents that resolve customer support tickets for e-commerce businesses end-to-end. They cancel orders, issue refunds, check inventory, talk to suppliers, and get better over time.

To make this scalable, we’re building an AI Manager: a higher-level agent that trains, monitors, and optimizes the Support Agents with minimal human input - effectively an AI-run support team.

Minimal AI
Founded:2024
Batch:S25
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Founders
Titus Ex
Titus Ex
Founder
Niek Hogenboom
Niek Hogenboom
Founder