About us:
Green Ivy Ventures is an early-stage technology company focused on developing digital products and solutions.
Our mission is to make everyday extraordinary through solutions that simplify life, delight, and solve real problems.
Our vision is to build a world where our ventures are not just businesses, but engines of problem-solving. Each venture will build products that bring joy, relief or inspiration to millions of people around the world. We commit to discovering, building and growing solutions that unlock new possibilities in technically under-penetrated sectors.
Our initial focus is on developing software as a service, with a focus on web applications, in the Real Estate space. Real Estate is undergoing a tectonic shift, driven by unique economic conditions, once in a lifetime policy shifts, and of course, the explosion and adoption of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
About you:
You are a dreamer, a builder, and want to prove to the world that there’s way more to you than what meets the eye. Our company values, are your values, professionally and personally:
- Be an Underdog - The odds are often stacked against you, but you get through it with grit, and creative risk taking.
- Find Cohesion - Life is better, when things fit together. You make them fit.
- Draw, a Lot - Drawing and demonstrating, help you express yourself. It’s how you collaborate best, even if it’s not perfect.
- Practice Empathy - You understand. There are multiple explanations and viewpoints, and you like seeing them all.
- Find your Fun - Treat every day like a Friday, especially Mondays. You find ways to make the day fun, and fulfilling.
Description of Role:
We're working on our first venture - a unique digital, AI assistant for Real Estate. This highly differentiated cloud application combines elements of Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, to create an engaging mobile experience for Real Estate agents and their Clients, particularly first time and luxury home buyers.
This product is among the first of its kind in the industry, and has global applicability. Because of this nascent nature, this role will be expected to contend with the realities of developing an early stage product, learning to deal with ambiguity, and work on a team to discover and deliver value to customers. To be successful, you'll need to operate with a balance of curiosity, tenacity and practicality.
So what does that mean, in practical terms?
Key Responsibilities:
- As the first engineering hire, you'd be a key influence on the Product Development culture and processes.
- Collaborate with Product to understand the problem space, develop prototypes, demonstrate progress, and iteratively build solutions.
- Negotiate scope, communicate it, and operate against a plan.
- Develop software using Agile methodologies such as Kanban, or Scrum.
- Design and implement well thought out system architectures, in a structured, iterative manner.
- Document code, interfaces and decisions.
- Ensure quality through regular testing and QA cycles.
- Communicate status, blockers, progress and wins, in a remote first culture.
- Research and propose solutions, evaluating tradeoffs and risks.
- Move on to Engineering Manager responsibilities as we grow the team with more junior and/or external resources.
Required Skills
- We like to work with Python, JavaScript, PostGRES, GCP, Gemini/Open AI models, GitHub
- Document code, interfaces and decisions.
- Ensure quality through regular testing and QA cycles.
- Communicate status, blockers, progress and wins, in a remote first culture.
- Research and propose solutions, evaluating tradeoffs and risks.
- Experience building and scaling CI/CD pipelines, building and managing environments, and basic DevOps practices.
- Ability to design and build re-usable API's and services.
- Demonstrated history of Engineering Management, including scoping, planning and managing deliverables across multiple team members.
- Highly adept at finding appropriate memes, and bringing a finely tuned sense of humor to the team.
Nice to Haves
- Experience with integrating and deploying Machine Learning and AI models.
- Experience with cost modeling and forecasting of infrastructure needs.
- Experience with developing and implementing cybersecurity models at the appropriate level of risk for company stage.
Hiring Notes
- At the present time, this role is a CONTRACT only role.
- The duration of the contract is up for negotiation.
- Please carefully review the compensation in the job posting, before applying. Applicants requiring more than the requested budget will be rejected.
- We are not considering "IT and staffing agencies" at this time.
