Backend Engineer
Storytell.ai
Our North Star Metric (NSM) is Skyrocketing!
Our NSM is how we measure usage and has recently surged 100X. It's a measure of the breadth x depth of usage of our product. Learn more about the NSM here.
Life at Storytell
We transforming AI tooling into better outcomes for enterprise knowledge workers using an approach we call DistillAI.
Storytell is an early-stage venture-backed startup with some incredible investors including Eric Ries and Brian McClendon. We are looking for incredible people who share our values, including:
- Everyone is Crew: We are here to build an impactful company together while supporting each other in our personal and professional journeys.
- Apply High-Leverage Thinking: “There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One Is called Yesterday and the other Is called Tomorrow” - Dalai Lama
- We Prioritize Clean Communication in our Interactions: We communicate with each other in “Clean” ways. We create a safe environment for feedback and define ARCI in our interactions to drive clarity.
- We follow the three levels of clean communication in the workplace.
- Market Signal is our North Star: We are a company that values external data over our internal beliefs because our truth comes from our users.
- We Default to Transparency: We “flip the bit” and justify opacity instead of defaulting to it.
- We are a Learning Organization: We know the only failure is a failure to learn.
We are building a remote-friendly company. The Founders are based in the San Francisco Bay area and we work in a distributed manner across several US time zones.
Learn about our Vision, Mission and Strategy:
We are building AI-driven platform that converts any content into Story Tiles™ and uses AI & ML to create useful knowledge — “stories” — to break down organizational silos internally, and fuel go-to-market and recruiting efforts externally.
Dig into our Vision, Mission and Strategy here.
Our Shared Values:
We believe that being aligned on our shared values is the foundation of how we build, belong, and how we show up for each other and to the broader ecosystem. You can find our shared values here.
Don't Meet Every Single Requirement?
Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Storytell we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
We offer you an opportunity to:
- Work directly with our C-level executive team
- Exercise your problem-solving skills
- Learn the fundamentals of a startup
- Grow in your career journey through support on many dimensions, such as:
- 1:1s
- Regular trainings
- Learning and practicing clean communication
- Build our systems and processes
- Make a huge contribution to the future of Storytell, AI – and the world!
- We will support you if you want to become a Founder someday