Associate Systems & Automation Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>BOLT FARM</strong> is building America’s most iconic romantic luxury retreat brand: nature-immersed, high-experience, and emotionally transformative. Backed by 3,300+ five-star reviews, 1M+ followers, and features across Forbes, Travel + Leisure, and Netflix, we’re scaling from a high-performing flagship into a national portfolio. If you want to operate at the ground floor of a brand with real momentum, high standards, and a team obsessed with doing it right, this is your seat. 🚀</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What You’ll Love About Working at BOLT FARM</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build real tools for real problems.</strong> This is not theoretical software work. You’ll build systems people actually use to make the business run better.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Use AI as leverage.</strong> We want builders who are already using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or similar to move faster and think better.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Work close to the business.</strong> Feedback loops are tight, users are accessible, and the impact of what you build is visible quickly.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Avoid corporate tech bloat.</strong> No endless committee work or over-engineered nonsense. We care about practical solutions that ship.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Help create the operating system for a growing company.</strong> Your work will help connect teams, reduce friction, and make Bolt Farm more scalable.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>You Know You’re a Great Fit for This Role If…</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You like turning messy, open-ended problems into working tools. You are comfortable asking questions, understanding how work happens today, and building something better.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You are not looking for a narrow ticket queue. You want to build across the system, move quickly, use AI heavily, and ship useful internal software that helps the business operate smarter.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>The Core Mission</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build internal tools, automations, and AI-assisted systems that reduce friction, improve execution, and help Bolt Farm scale with better infrastructure.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Why This Role Matters</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Bolt Farm is growing, and growth creates operational complexity. The technology team helps solve that by building smarter internal systems, connecting workflows, and replacing disconnected manual processes with practical tools.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">This role is for a builder who can work from business context to technical solution — not just write code in isolation.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build internal tools, workflows, and automations that solve real operational problems across the business</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Turn open-ended requests into practical solutions that improve speed, clarity, and execution</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Contribute to full-stack development work in a JavaScript and TypeScript environment</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and improve applications using frameworks and databases similar to Next.js and Postgres</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use AI-native development tools as a core part of the build process</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work across the system from data layer to end user, not just one narrow part of the stack</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Debug, troubleshoot, and refine systems in both local and production environments</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help move solutions from development into production using sound deployment and production-readiness practices</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Prototype, test, and improve solutions based on real user feedback</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help create a more integrated internal software environment that reduces reliance on disconnected third-party tools</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>What Success Looks Like</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Useful internal tools ship quickly and solve real business problems.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Teams spend less time fighting disconnected systems, manual workflows, and unclear processes.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">AI becomes a real development multiplier, not a buzzword.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You build with enough speed to create momentum and enough discipline to keep systems reliable.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Minimum Requirements</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hands-on experience building software, automations, or technical products in JavaScript or TypeScript through real-world work or projects</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Recent hands-on use of AI-native development tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, or similar as a meaningful part of a real shipping workflow</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Clear examples of how AI tools improved speed, debugging, prototyping, code generation, or delivery quality</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Working knowledge of Git-based development and testing or test-suite fundamentals</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience contributing in a modern full-stack web environment using frameworks and databases similar to Next.js and Postgres</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience taking loosely defined technical or workflow problems and turning them into working solutions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience debugging and troubleshooting software in local and production environments</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Comfort working through deployment workflows and production-readiness practices</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>Nice to Have</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Recent GitHub or other public project work that shows active building</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Startup, failed-startup, freelance, or entrepreneurial builder experience</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience building internal tools, workflow software, or operational systems</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in booking, scheduling, service operations, or other workflow-heavy environments</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A pattern of building side projects, hobby projects, or exploratory technical work outside of core job responsibilities</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Clear signs that technology is a genuine long-term interest, not just a narrow job skill</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p></li></ul><h2>Who Thrives Here</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">People who thrive here are practical builders. They are curious, resourceful, AI-native, and comfortable figuring things out without needing every detail handed to them.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">If you want to build tools that make a real business faster, cleaner, and smarter, this is your seat. 🚀</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Equal Opportunity Employer</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"> BOLT FARM is an equal opportunity employer. We hire and promote based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs, and do not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by law.</p>

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