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Founding Software Engineer

Join Kleep, an innovative AI-driven startup, as a Founding Software Engineer. In this role, you will work closely with the co-founders and contribute to the development of core features, technical architecture, and high-impact decisions that shape the product roadmap. You will have a direct impact on the growth of the company and the success of its AI products. The position is full-time, based in Paris, and offers a supportive and ambitious team environment with rapid skill development opportunities.

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Permanent contract
Paris
Occasional remote
Salary: Not specified
Experience: > 3 years
Education: Master's Degree
Skills & expertise
Typescript (NodeJS)
GitHub
Vercel
TypeScript
Linear
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Key missions

Participer à la conception et à la construction de fonctionnalités clés sur la plateforme, les pipelines d'IA et les intégrations.

Aider à définir les choix d'architecture technique en tenant compte de l'évolutivité, de la sécurité et de la conformité.

Collaborer étroitement avec l'équipe fondatrice et les partenaires du studio pour passer de l'idéation à la production.

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About the Role

As a Founding Software Engineer, you’ll work accelerate Kleep’s growth and help deliver on ambitious product and goals, in close collaboration with with Théophile (Co-founder & CTO) and Paul-Emile (Head of Machine Learning).

You will have an active role in making Kleep’s ambitious product strategy a reality. You’ll have an actual impact on what we build, how we build it, and how engineering evolves at Kleep. From early prototypes to production-grade systems, you’ll own components end-to-end, drive quality and reliability as we scale, and you’ll help shape technical decisions — turning roadmap goals into durable, scalable products.

Why Founding?

Because this role is central to scaling our product suite, and you’ll be part of Kleep’s ambitious core team:

  1. strengthening our core experience and platform to reach 1000 clients

  2. and building the next capabilities that expand our impact with brands and shoppers

  3. Experience: This role is open to different experience levels (min. 1 year), whether you’re early in your career or already more seasoned. What we care about most is that you’re smart, ambitious, fun to work with, eager to learn, and who genuinely enjoys building meaningful projects with real impact. You’ll learn a lot - every day.

  4. It’s always day 1 at Kleep

Tech Stack

  • Back-end: Node.js, Python

  • (Front-end: TypeScript, React.js - this is FYI, this role is mostly backend)

  • Cloud services: AWS, GCP

  • Tools: GitHub, Linear, Vercel

Your responsibilities

  • Take part in designing & building core features across platform, AI pipelines and integrations

  • Help define technical architecture choices with scalability, security, and compliance in mind

  • Work closely with the founding team and studio partners (= clients who like us and want to help build the products) from ideation to production

  • Take part in high-impact technical decisions that will help shape the product roadmap

Why join Kleep AI

  • Immediate impact: Your work directly powers AI products used by leading international brands.

  • Strong technical exposure: Hands-on experience with production data systems at scale.

  • Supportive and ambitious team: Learn alongside experienced founders and engineers.

  • Fast learning curve: Rapid skill development in a modern, AI-driven tech stack.

Practical information

  • Start date: As soon as possible (flexible)

  • Contract: Permanent (Full-time)

  • Location: Paris


Preferred experience

Aligned with Kleep’s culture and vision:

  • Curiosity is one of your key strengths, and you enjoy solving complex problems.

  • You enjoy learning & you are able to quickly identify and acquire the skills needed to achieve your goals

  • You have a high level of energy

  • You are familiar with software development

  • You are eager to take on an ambitious role in an fast-growing and highly-rewarding entrepreneurial venture.

  • You are a strong team player with a high degree of autonomy.

  • Experience: > 1-1.5 years


Recruitment process

We typically make sure that your recruiting process is the most efficient possible, for you and for us. You’ll get answers for next rounds within 1 business day.

  1. Fit interview 1: See if we’re a (potential) mutual match
    Interviewer: CTO or Head of Machine Learning

  2. Technical interview 1: Logical & design reasoning
    Interviewer: CTO or Head of Machine Learning

  3. Technical interview 2: Coding skills assessment
    Interviewer: CTO or Head of Machine Learning

  4. Fit interview 2: Meet Kleep’s 2nd co-founder
    Interviewer: CEO

  5. Meet the team & drinks 🎉

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