Who we are and what we do

Contra is building the world’s first professional network for independent creatives and the companies that hire them. We are commission-free, global, and focused on enabling the future of flexible work. Alongside our network and marketplace, we’re launching new product lines including Contra for Companies, Contra Ads Network, and Creative RLHF & Evaluation Services for AI labs and creative-tool companies.

We believe human creativity is the defining force of the next era of AI. That’s why we’re building the Human Creativity Benchmark—a new standard for evaluating how foundation models perform on creative, subjective, and open-ended tasks.

We've raised over $50M from leading investors like NEA, Unusual Ventures, and Cowboy Ventures—and we're just getting started.

About You:

• You understand modern AI systems, products and workflows. You have opinions and taste in these areas, and know how to build polished AI-driven user experiences that delight, not detract.
• You are an excellent, independent problem solver.
• You have high standards for craft, quality, and attention-to-detail for the work that you ship, and motivate others to raise the bar.
• You know how to articulate and balance the tradeoffs of rapid pace exploration and building performant, scalable, reliable, and quality systems.
• You have high standards for verbal and written communication and are experienced at working in a remote organization, preferring to over-communicate and collaborate synchronously when able.
• You thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment. Our team knows how to execute and is relentless about our velocity. You smartly use AI to increase your personal velocity, but are experienced enough an engineer on your own to navigate and keep it in check.
• You apply an ownership mentality to everything you ship, and collaborate cross-functionally with other teams to achieve success.
• You dedicate effort to staying up to date with new technologies, patterns, and AI.

In a day at Contra, you’ll probably:

• Contribute to our end-to-end TypeScript, GraphQL, React monorepo. You’ll work across the stack — including our AI stack (LLMs, embeddings, vector search, evals, etc.)
• Contribute to our Vitest/Playwright test suite.
• Participate in the RFC process, building alignment around new database and API schemas and new patterns.
• Participate in all parts of the product development process, like design critiques, code reviews, and cross-functional planning with your team.
• Work on maintaining a tidy home: eliminate technical debt, improve performance, address customer bugs, improve developer experience, etc.

Our Stack:

• Backend: TypeScript, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, NodeJS, Redis, Temporal
• Frontend: React, Relay, PandaCSS
• Data: Airbyte, dbt, Google BigQuery
• DevOps: ArgoCD, Docker, GitHub, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes
• Testing: Playwright, Vitest
• Tools: Linear, Mergify, PostHog, Slack, Turbo
• AI: OpenAI, Cursor, Supermaven, CodeRabbit (for code reviews — it’s actually great!)

Total Comp:

• Salary: $180,000 - $210,000 CAD
• Health + dental benefits
• Home Office Budget
• We will provide you with a company laptop on your start date

Interview Process

1. Intro Call with Recruiting Team (15-20 minutes)
2. Interview with CTO & Co-Founder (30 minutes)
3. Technical Interview with Engineering Manager (60 minutes)
4. Culture & Cross-Functional Interview (40 minutes)
5. Interview with CEO & Co-Founder (30 minutes)

Note: Contra communicates with applicants through @contra.com domains only. We never ask for money from potential employees. For the latest job postings, visit Contra Careers.