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About the job
Location: Remote (US time zone overlap preferred) Type: Full-time
About AskCruz
AskCruz is an AI operating system for mid-market businesses — not another chatbot layered on top of software, but AI that runs inside how a company actually operates. We ingest a company's ERP data, email, calls, and internal knowledge into a live, queryable system (built on Claude), so operators get answers and action from their own business context instead of generic AI output.
We're an early-stage, founder-led team with paying customers and a product that's already live in production. This is a builder's seat, not a maintenance seat.
What you'll own
You'll be the senior technical owner of AskCruz's core product surface — not a single layer, but the connective tissue between them:
IRIS — our live ERP + Claude query layer, which lets operators ask direct questions of their own business data and get grounded answers back
The OV ingestion pipeline — the system that pulls in email, calls, SOPs, and static knowledge and turns it into structured, queryable context
The product surfaces clients touch — Odoo-based CRM/task workflows and our Next.js front end
You won't be handed fully-scoped tickets. You'll be given a client problem — "this account needs its call history queryable" or "this workflow is too manual" — and you'll design and ship the solution.
What you'll actually do
Build and harden Claude-API-based query and agent workflows against live ERP data
Extend and scale ingestion pipelines (email, call transcripts, documents) into structured, retrievable knowledge
Work inside Odoo (Python/XML/PostgreSQL) to extend CRM, task, and reporting workflows
Build and maintain front-end surfaces in Next.js/React
Make architecture calls directly with the founder — no layers of process between you and the decision
Take a new client's onboarding from "here's their data" to "IRIS is answering their questions" with minimal hand-holding
What we need from you
5+ years building production software, with real ownership of systems end to end — not just tickets
Strong Python — you can build backend services, not just scripts
Direct experience building with LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI, or similar) — prompt design, tool use/function calling, RAG or agent patterns in production, not just a personal project
Working comfort with PostgreSQL and relational data modeling
React/Next.js competence sufficient to ship a client-facing feature without a dedicated front-end hire
Comfort with ambiguity — you'll define the "right" solution as often as you're told it
Strongly preferred
Odoo experience (Python/XML customization) — steep learning curve if you don't have it, but not disqualifying if everything else is strong
Experience at an early-stage startup where you were one of the first 1-3 engineers
Exposure to ERP, CRM, or other operational business systems (not just consumer software)
How we work
Small team, direct access to the founder, fast decisions
You'll ship to real paying customers within weeks, not quarters
No fixed roadmap ceremony — priorities shift based on what closes deals and what clients need
Equity/comp structured for someone who wants meaningful ownership of outcome, not just a paycheck
Why this role, specifically
If you want to be the fifth person cleaning up a mature codebase, this isn't that. If you want to be one of the first engineers on a product with paying customers, real revenue traction, and a founder who will hand you real ownership from day one — this is that.
To apply: send a brief note on the most interesting production system you've built with an LLM in the loop, plus your GitHub or a code sample.
