Software Engineer

Rilla

📍New York, NY
Posted May 22, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Software Engineer

Company

Rilla

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4249515331

Job Description

A Foundational Company
Rilla is on a mission to index the offline world.

Today, we’ve built the leading sales coaching software for organizations doing sales offline. We have over 1000 customers, including The Home Depot, KKR, Neighborly, and PulteGroup, using our product to enable AI sales coaching across their organization.

We are backed by Google Ventures, Bessemer Ventures, Crew Capital, and Broom Ventures, along with others.

We’re an in office team in NYC with builders who operate like high speed reinforcement learners. We obsess over our customers, move at a high velocity, are not afraid of failure, and look to maximize our real-world impact.

If you want to build the products and systems for how billions of conversations in the real world are captured and indexed, Rilla is the place to do it.

The Role
Rilla engineers architect and ship features across the stack at lightning speed. On a daily basis, you will build end-to-end workflows, take them to production, and solve real world problems across an out-sized scale.

As an early technical steward, you will raise the bar for code quality and decision‑making, setting patterns that cement a world‑class engineering culture as we scale. While the company 10×’s, your scope and ownership will grow just as fast—building the tools, mental models, and platforms that let both you and Rilla accelerate exponentially.

Do you describe yourself as "obsessive"? Do you aspire to be a founder or a leader in applying AI to the physical world? We believe Rilla is the best place — with the best peers — to learn how.

Technologies We Use

  • Different languages and frameworks, including React, React Native, Typescript and Python

  • Open-source technologies like Node.js, PostgreSQL, Turborepo, Lodash, and Zod

  • Industry-standard build tooling, including GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Spacelift

What We Value

  • An infinite learner. Someone who is relentless in their curiosity.

  • A customer obsessive. Someone who deeply care about delighting customers and solving real pains, not vanity metrics.

  • A winning attitude. You thrive with extreme accountability, learning as a team, and both giving and receiving rapid feedback.

  • Extreme empathy. Our customers are not tech companies. They live and work in the real world. Empathy is critical to arriving at correct solutions.

  • Unafraid of failure. You take risks. You see failure as an opportunity to learn, grow, and be better the next time. In a weird way, you trick your brain into being excited when you fail, because it means you got a new opportunity to learn more.

What We Require

  • Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Javascript, C++, Python, Rust, or similar languages.

  • Strong engineering prowess, ideally developed at start-ups.

  • Familiarity with storage and data processing systems, cloud infrastructure, and other technical tools.

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to iterate quickly with teammates, incorporating feedback and holding a high bar for quality.

Don’t Work Here
Please Don't Join If You're Not Excited About

  • Building an AI product for an industry untouched by modern software

  • Constantly talking to and visiting customers in the field

  • Working ~60 hrs/week in person with some of the most ambitious people in NYC

  • Attempting to build a generational company, and the intensity required to do so

Compensation
The estimated salary range for this position is $185,000 - $260,000/year.

Successful candidates with competing offers will receive matching and competitive offers.

Total compensation for this position may also include Incentive Stock Options, sign-on bonus, and other potential future incentives. This estimate excludes the value of any potential sign-on bonus; the value of any benefits offered; and the potential future value of any long-term incentives.

Our benefits aim to empower Rilla employees in removing roadblocks to achieving their life’s work. The list below details our available benefits and some of the perks that can be enjoyed as an employee of Rilla.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance

  • Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks at the office

  • Gym membership

  • Commuter benefits

  • Relocation assistance

  • Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based

  • $1,000 stipend for learning and personal growth

  • $1,500 a month rent stipend

  • Tech equipment

  • Unlimited token budget

Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How would you design an end-to-end workflow to capture, process, and index billions of offline conversations at scale using our current stack (Node.js, PostgreSQL, Python)?
  • 2.Given our use of Turborepo, React, and React Native, how would you structure a monorepo to share logic between our web dashboard and mobile app while maintaining high code quality and fast build times?
  • 3.Rilla requires raising the bar for code quality as we 10x. How do you implement automated validation and safety nets in a fast-paced CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you failed technically or shipped a feature that didn't work out. How did you react, and what did you learn?
  • 2.Describe a situation where you had to build a feature for non-technical users. How did you ensure empathy guided your engineering decisions?
  • 3.Give an example of a time you had to learn a completely new technology or domain rapidly to deliver a project. How did you approach the learning process?
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are tasked with building a new AI sales coaching feature, but the data from the offline conversations is messy and incomplete. How do you approach this?
  • 2.You notice a critical architectural flaw that will hinder our ability to scale 10x, but fixing it means pausing feature development for a week, and the team is moving at lightning speed. What do you do?

Resume Keywords

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React NativeTypeScriptPythonPostgreSQLTerraformAI sales coachingOffline data processingFull-stackRapid iterationCustomer obsessionStartup

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