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Junior AI-Accelerated Developer

🏢 Spare · 📍 Vancouver, Canada · 💼 hybrid · ⏰ FullTime
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Position Summary & Responsibilities

About Us

Spare builds the Operating System for Cities. We power microtransit, paratransit, fixed-route, and municipal operations in 250+ cities worldwide. We are an aggressively AI-first company, rethinking how modern software is designed, built, and shipped.

About This Role

We are looking for a Junior AI-Accelerated Developer to help us dramatically increase engineering velocity by partnering closely with our COO and engineering team. This role is ideal for an ambitious junior developer who is excited about AI-assisted coding, eager to learn, and able to move quickly. You will report directly to Josh, our Co-Founder and COO.

You will work within Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub, and our engineering workflows to help iterate on code, address review feedback, maintain branch health, and push features from concept to merge. You won’t own architecture or complex systems yet. Instead, you’ll focus on accelerating delivery, improving code quality, and ensuring a smooth path through our development pipeline.

This is a new type of engineering role, combining software fundamentals with strong operational instincts and deep proficiency with AI coding tools.

Key Responsibilities

AI-Assisted Engineering

  • Work inside Cursor and Claude Code to iterate on code based on reviewer feedback

  • Translate high-level instructions into precise prompts to guide AI-generated code

  • Improve AI-generated code until it meets internal quality standards

  • Help refactor, clean up, and polish code before final review

Branch, Build and CI Management

  • Maintain functioning local and remote environments

  • Pull branches, resolve simple merge conflicts, rebase, and ensure builds run cleanly

  • Keep PRs unblocked by ensuring CI, linting, type checks, and tests pass

PR Execution and Thro

🎯 Candidate Preparation Guide For Spare Applicants

Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Evaluators strictly measure your ability to simplify complex systems and operate autonomously in a high-growth mobility ecosystem.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Blaming legacy systems entirely without acknowledging operational trade-offs
  • 2. Showing impatience with ambiguous requirements or slow-moving municipal stakeholders
  • 3. Lacking concrete metrics around operational throughput or software uptime in past roles
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I specialize in turning fragmented transit and logistics data into frictionless, scalable user experiences.

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