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Software Engineer
Accepting applicationsArdenus · Raleigh, NC
Full-Time Entry AIJavaPythonaiate
Posted
1d ago
Category
Test
Experience
Entry
Country
United States
Summary
Ardenus is hiring software engineers, and this is the door we want as many good people as possible to walk through. We're a small, fast-moving team building the structured-knowledge layer that modern enterprises run on — ontology, data pipelines, AI applications, infrastructure, and the product surfaces that sit on top. You don't need a famous employer on your résumé, a computer-science degree, or years of experience to belong here. You need to be able to build, to learn fast, and to care about getting things right.
This is our most open role. Career-changers, bootcamp graduates, self-taught engineers, recent grads, and people returning to work after time away are all genuinely welcome. If you've ever shipped something that worked and wanted to make it better, we want to hear from you. Apply, tell us what you've built, and we'll find the place where you'll do your best work.
Description
Build real features on the Ardenus platform — backend, frontend, data, tooling, or infrastructure — starting with the parts that match what you already know.
Learn the rest on the job. You'll be paired with experienced engineers who review your work, answer your questions, and help you level up fast.
Own pieces of the product end-to-end as you grow, from the first idea through shipping it and watching people use it.
Ask questions out loud. We'd rather you ask early than guess. There are no dumb questions on this team.
Grow into the engineer you want to become. We invest in people, not just hires.
Minimum Qualifications
You should:
Have built something with code — a project, a feature, a script, a website, a contribution — and be able to talk through how it works and why you made the choices you did. It does not have to be at a job.
Know at least one programming language well enough to be productive in it (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, Rust, C#, or similar). One is plenty to start.
Be willing to learn the rest as you go. We care more about how fast you pick things up than what you already know.
Communicate clearly in writing. Most of our work is asynchronous, and good writing is how we stay aligned.
Be genuinely curious about the problem space — data, AI, infrastructure, or the product surfaces that sit on top of all three.
Preferred Qualifications
You can:
Point to anything you're proud of — a repo, a school project, a hackathon entry, a freelance build, an open-source pull request, or a write-up. Polish matters less than that it's real and it's yours.
Show that you've taught yourself something hard and stuck with it until it worked.
Demonstrate any exposure to the areas we work in: web apps, databases, APIs, cloud, AI/LLM tools, or developer tooling. Any one of these is a great start.
Speak to a time you were stuck, asked for help or dug into the docs, and came out the other side. That instinct matters more here than knowing everything up front.
Bring a background, perspective, or path into engineering that's different from the rest of the team. We hire for range, and we mean it.
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Ardenus is hiring software engineers, and this is the door we want as many good people as possible to walk through. We're a small, fast-moving team building the structured-knowledge layer that modern enterprises run on — ontology, data pipelines, AI applications, infrastructure, and the product surfaces that sit on top. You don't need a famous employer on your résumé, a computer-science degree, or years of experience to belong here. You need to be able to build, to learn fast, and to care about getting things right.
This is our most open role. Career-changers, bootcamp graduates, self-taught engineers, recent grads, and people returning to work after time away are all genuinely welcome. If you've ever shipped something that worked and wanted to make it better, we want to hear from you. Apply, tell us what you've built, and we'll find the place where you'll do your best work.
Description
Build real features on the Ardenus platform — backend, frontend, data, tooling, or infrastructure — starting with the parts that match what you already know.
Learn the rest on the job. You'll be paired with experienced engineers who review your work, answer your questions, and help you level up fast.
Own pieces of the product end-to-end as you grow, from the first idea through shipping it and watching people use it.
Ask questions out loud. We'd rather you ask early than guess. There are no dumb questions on this team.
Grow into the engineer you want to become. We invest in people, not just hires.
Minimum Qualifications
You should:
Have built something with code — a project, a feature, a script, a website, a contribution — and be able to talk through how it works and why you made the choices you did. It does not have to be at a job.
Know at least one programming language well enough to be productive in it (Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, Rust, C#, or similar). One is plenty to start.
Be willing to learn the rest as you go. We care more about how fast you pick things up than what you already know.
Communicate clearly in writing. Most of our work is asynchronous, and good writing is how we stay aligned.
Be genuinely curious about the problem space — data, AI, infrastructure, or the product surfaces that sit on top of all three.
Preferred Qualifications
You can:
Point to anything you're proud of — a repo, a school project, a hackathon entry, a freelance build, an open-source pull request, or a write-up. Polish matters less than that it's real and it's yours.
Show that you've taught yourself something hard and stuck with it until it worked.
Demonstrate any exposure to the areas we work in: web apps, databases, APIs, cloud, AI/LLM tools, or developer tooling. Any one of these is a great start.
Speak to a time you were stuck, asked for help or dug into the docs, and came out the other side. That instinct matters more here than knowing everything up front.
Bring a background, perspective, or path into engineering that's different from the rest of the team. We hire for range, and we mean it.
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