
Founding Senior Software Engineer
Hyperscale8 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build and own core product features end-to-end, from data models and backend systems to user interfaces and conversational or agentic experiences.
- Design and operate scalable production systems for agent orchestration, memory, tool execution, and autonomous multi-step workflows.
- Develop real-time communication infrastructure supporting thousands of customer interactions.
- Build observable, reliable enterprise-scale systems and own deployment pipelines, monitoring, and incident response.
- Translate customer and operational problems into technical solutions and iterate with founders, customers, and go-to-market teams.
- Establish engineering practices, architecture patterns, technical standards, and culture as the team grows.
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers and contribute to hiring and building the engineering organization.
Requirements
- At least five years of software engineering experience with demonstrated ability to build and ship full-stack applications.
- Strong fundamentals in backend systems, databases, APIs, and web applications.
- Experience owning complex features or systems from design through deployment.
- Experience building production systems at scale with attention to reliability and performance.
- Ability to make sound technical tradeoffs between speed, robustness, quality, and maintainability.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience with real-time communication systems, voice applications, telephony, AI/ML product development, agentic systems, or production LLM integrations is desirable.
- Experience in logistics, operations, enterprise SaaS, early-stage startups, founding engineering, open source, or relevant side projects is desirable.
Benefits
- San Francisco in-person work is preferred.
- Opportunity to shape engineering culture, technical standards, and the engineering team from day one.
- Work on a production AI platform used by major U.S. fleets and backed by top investors and advisors.