Software Engineer

About Graspium

Graspium is an AI reading companion. You read on your phone or laptop, upload any EPUB or pick a free classic, listen to it read aloud, and ask questions about the page you're on. Every answer comes from the book's own text, quotes real passages, and stops at your bookmark, so it never spoils what's ahead. Graspium already syncs with tolino libraries (Thalia, Hugendubel, Osiander and other bookshops), and Kobo is on the way.

We're raising in San Francisco and building the US team. You'll be one of the first engineers here, shipping alongside our founding engineer and the founders.

What you'll do

• Ship features across the stack: the reader on web and mobile, the backend, and the AI that answers questions.
• Improve how Graspium understands books: EPUB parsing, chapters and pagination, highlights and notes, and reading position.
• Work on the question-answering pipeline so answers stay grounded in the reader's edition and never run past their bookmark.
• Build integrations with ebook platforms, starting with tolino sync and Kobo.
• Watch how readers use the product, measure it, and fix what gets in their way.

What we're looking for

• 2+ years building and shipping production software.
• Solid full-stack skills in a modern web stack.
• Interest in LLM products, and ideally some experience building with them.
• You like owning a feature from idea to release and talking to the people who use it.
• Bonus: mobile, EPUB and ebook formats, text-to-speech, or a long reading list of your own.

Details

• On-site in San Francisco.
• $145K–$195K base salary plus equity.
• We can't sponsor visas. You need to be authorized to work in the US.

Compensation Range: $145K - $195K