Junior Developer / Product Manager (Contract-to-Hire)

Junior Developer / Product Manager (Contract-to-Hire) botgui.de · Boise, ID Developer or product person? Read on — we want both kinds of thinker, and the best people we know are a little of each. This role: Starts as a contract position with the potential to convert to direct hire. You'll work alongside our team building custom software for real clients — automations and plugins for engineering toolchains, voice-recognition and document-generation pipelines for field workflows. Whichever side you come from, you'll own real work end-to-end across the full software development lifecycle: planning, analysis, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance — responsible from start to finish. The thread that runs through everyone here: we don't ask AI to hand us an answer and hope it's right. We build the systems that make the answer come out the same way every time — and when something breaks, we diagnose it like engineers, not prompters. If you come at this from the engineering side, you've done things like: Worked with multiple frontier models and know their tradeoffs — not loyal to one Called LLMs through the API, and run open-weight models yourself Built RAG systems to ground models in real data Used MCP to connect models to tools and live context Wrapped AI in software that forces deterministic, repeatable outcomes — same input, same output Debugged a broken AI pipeline by tracing it to root cause, not re-rolling a prompt If you come at it from the product side, you've done things like: Translated a messy client vision into a buildable plan, with requirements precise enough to produce deterministic outcomes Asked a client "tell me more about that" — and surfaced what they actually needed, not just what they said Spotted when a client was misaligned with themselves, and resolved it by asking the right questions Read a PRD and caught where the AI didn't actually understand it Opened the dev console to see what's really happening instead of trusting the UI Sat between engineers and stakeholders without losing either What ties it together — what we're really looking for: A systems thinker who sees how the pieces fit, not just how to write code or write a ticket Strong debugging instincts — able to trace a problem to its source, whether it's in the code or in the conversation Comfortable owning work end-to-end across the full SDLC Fluent with AI-augmented work, with the judgment to know when the AI is wrong Bonus if you've owned an AI-driven product and learned the hard way where models break and where guardrails belong. If that's you, apply. 👇