Software Engineer
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
N71.ai is seeking a Software Engineer to join their early-stage company building the memory and context layer for AI agents. The role involves building features across the platform, writing production code, and taking ownership of components.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Build features across the memory and context platform, including the knowledge graph, retrieval, and MCP integrations
- Write, test, and ship production code alongside the team
- Debug, improve performance, and help keep the system reliable
- Contribute to the work that lets agents access sensitive data safely
- Learn the stack quickly and take real ownership of the parts you build
Requirements
- 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience, or strong personal or open source projects
- Solid fundamentals in at least one backend language, plus comfort with APIs and data stores
- A genuine appetite to learn, ship, and own your work
- Clear communication and the ability to ask good questions
- Comfort with ambiguity and a fast moving early stage environment
- Exposure to knowledge graphs or graph databases (nice to have)
- Work with LLMs, AI agents, or retrieval systems (nice to have)
- Familiarity with MCP or similar integration protocols (nice to have)
- Interest in security, access control, or data governance (nice to have)
Full Job Posting
About N71.ai
- N71 is building the memory and context layer for AI agents. We sit across the AI tools a company already uses, connect them through MCP, and hold a knowledge graph underneath so context persists and compounds across systems and teams.
- We are an early stage company based in Abu Dhabi, building for the Gulf and beyond. The product is technical and the problems are real: graph storage and retrieval, context that persists across agents, governed access to sensitive data, all of it fast and reliable.
The role
- This is an early engineering hire, reporting to our technical co founder and working alongside a small, senior team. You will build, ship, and own real parts of the product from day one.
- You will not be managing anyone. The job is to write good code, learn quickly, and take ownership of the pieces you work on. This is a strong fit for someone early in their career who wants to build serious systems, work closely with experienced engineers, and grow faster than they would on a big te
What you will do
- Build features across the memory and context platform, including the knowledge graph, retrieval, and our MCP integrations.
- Write, test, and ship production code alongside the team.
- Debug, improve performance, and help keep the system reliable.
- Contribute to the work that lets agents access sensitive data safely.
- Learn the stack quickly and take real ownership of the parts you build.
What you bring
- 1 to 3 years of software engineering experience, or strong personal or open source projects if you are earlier in your career.
- Solid fundamentals in at least one backend language, plus comfort with APIs and data stores.
- A genuine appetite to learn, ship, and own your work.
- Clear communication and the ability to ask good questions.
- Comfort with ambiguity and a fast moving early stage environment.
Nice to have
- Exposure to knowledge graphs or graph databases.
- Work with LLMs, AI agents, or retrieval systems.
- Familiarity with MCP or similar integration protocols.
- Interest in security, access control, or data governance.
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at N71.ai
Marketing Manager
Dubai, UAE
N71.ai is hiring an early Marketing Manager to own brand, content, campaigns, and community for an AI memory layer startup. The role involves translating technical products into clear messaging, driving demand generation
Machine Learning Engineer
Dubai, UAE
N71.ai is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to own the retrieval and ranking layer of their proactive intelligence platform. You will design hybrid retrieval pipelines, fine-tune embedding models, and build ranking syst