AI-First Engineer
Snug.com
Location: Sydney, NSW – Hybrid
Employment Type: Full-time
Salary: Competitive + ESOP + benefits
About Snug
Snug is an innovative, award-winning, and fast-growing Australian proptech company with a fast, fun, and agile culture. We’re an AI-first business, creating intelligent product experiences that make renting easier for everyone.
Our platform connects nearly 2 million renters with over 3,000 real estate agencies and 65 integrated partners, streamlining the rental journey from search to signing. This is an extraordinary opportunity to join a successful company that’s redefining the rental experience — helping create a place that everyone can call home.
About the Role
We're looking for two AI Engineers to build, ship, optimise and own AI-powered products and systems. You'll be pivotal in establishing our AI capabilities including implementing AI / agentic software development practices and tools while shipping features that solve real problems for renters and real estate professionals.
About You
You're a builder - someone who is deeply curious, experiments relentlessly and is excited about using AI to solve real problems. You think like a product person, build like an engineer, ship like a startup founder and have a very high internal accountability and motivation to own operational systems. You're curious about what's possible but focused on what's valuable.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- 4+ years building and shipping software with some AI/ML experience in production.
- Strong engineering fundamentals - comfortable with a Golang/React/AWS stack or eager to learn.
- A systems thinker being able to break down complex and uncertain problems into solvable pieces with leveraging different technologies. You're able to think narrow and broad.
- API integration experience - extensive integration experience with RESTful services, data processing and system integrations.
- Product thinking - understand user needs and business problems before jumping to technical solutions
- Startup/scale-up experience - comfortable with ambiguity, rapid iteration, and changing priorities
- Builder mentality - prioritising getting things done and making progress, even with imperfect information. This means shipping early versions, testing ideas, and refining based on real feedback.
- Curiosity and experimentation - proven curiosity and excitement around AI tools and techniques
- Relentlessly removes repetition - automating, finding scalable solutions, reducing the drudge work across your working and personal life.
Highly Desirable:
- LLM integration - experience with OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar APIs.
- AWS experience - ECS, Lambda, RDS, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS Bedrock and other AWS services.
- Data processing - experience with ETL, data pipelines, or large dataset handling.
- PropTech or real estate - understanding of property workflows and data.
- Rapid prototyping - comfortable building quick proof-of-concepts to test ideas.
We Want to See:
- Examples of things you've built and shipped (GitHub, portfolio, or just tell us about them).
- Evidence of product thinking - how you approach problems and solutions.
- Curiosity about AI - what excites you about the current AI landscape.
- Pragmatic approach - how you balance experimentation with shipping.
What makes this role Special?
- Rare opportunity - help establish AI capabilities at a market-leading PropTech company.
- Real impact - solve problems for millions of renters and thousands of real estate professionals.
- Key contributors - helping explore, define and develop products, services and systems that genuinely improves user experiences.
- Experimentation culture - try new things, learn fast, iterate quickly.
- Growing platform - work with rich property data and established user base.
Why Join Snug?
- Be at the forefront of AI innovation in the property sector.
- Join a market-leading, award-winning business with a mission to make renting easier.
- Own high-impact product initiatives shaping the experience for millions.
- Work with a passionate, agile, cross-functional team that celebrates wins.
- Hybrid work model — 3 days in our Sydney office, 2 days remote.
- Opportunities for growth in a scaling technology company.
How to Apply
- If you’re excited about creating AI-led products that transform the rental experience, we’d love to hear from you. Apply via LinkedIn or Seek with your CV and a short cover letter telling us why you’re the perfect fit for Snug. Snug strongly encourages applications from all backgrounds and experiences as an inclusive workplace.