Software Engineer, Apps & Agents

Ollama is the most popular way for developers to access open models. What started as an open-source, local-first runtime is now the largest developer network in the open-model ecosystem: 8.9 million monthly active developers and over 67,000+ community-built integrations. We're backed by Y Combinator, Benchmark, 8VC, and Theory Ventures.

Our team is small and talent dense. We're flat, low-ego, and fast-moving. We like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, design-driven, and who enjoy shipping code.

You'll shape how people use Ollama across the desktop app, CLI, and tools they already use. A major part of the role is making open models work well with existing agent harnesses, coding tools, IDEs, and desktop applications.

This is a product engineering role with broad ownership. You'll design interfaces, build native and backend systems, create integrations, and test complete user journeys across local and cloud models.

• Build and refine Ollama's desktop app, CLI, onboarding,and more.

• Make agents and developer tools easy to connect to Ollama.

• Build first-class integrations while developing reusable systems that let others create and maintain their own.

• Ensure local and cloud models work reliably across different tools and agent harnesses.

• Test integrations through real workflows and turn recurring failures into durable compatibility improvements.

• Work across native applications, Go services and APIs, and web product surfaces.

• Partner with model and inference engineers to ship new models with appropriate capabilities, defaults, and integration support.

• You've built a thoughtful developer product that real people use.

• You combine strong engineering fundamentals with product judgment and visual attention.

• You're comfortable owning ambiguous work from exploration through implementation and polish.

• You enjoy debugging behavior across processes, configuration files, APIs, native applications, and third-party tools.

• You can simplify complex systems without hiding important behavior from users.

• You care about state preservation, recovery, compatibility, and the details that make integrations trustworthy.

• You're comfortable working across several parts of the stack. Experience with Go, Type Script, React, or similar technologies is useful.

• You test your work hands-on and recognize when technically correct behavior still produces a poor experience.

• You make good decisions in gray areas by weighing user needs, technical constraints, data, and product taste.

• You use agents to help you prototype, iterate, and ship to production fast.
  
  Partner with model and inference engineers to ship new models with appropriate capabilities, defaults, and integration support.

• You've built an agent, contributed to an agent harness, or modified one enough to understand how models, tools, context, permissions, and configuration interact.

• You have experience building developer tools, native desktop applications, IDE extensions, or integrations with third-party software.

• You've worked with local inference, hosted models, or products that must behave consistently across both.

• You've built something with Ollama!