19 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level / Senior
Base Salary
$235k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Build and ship developer-facing features from concept through production.
- Own the reliability of browser-automation and agent-interaction functionality against constantly changing web environments.
- Design clean APIs that solve ambiguous technical problems for external developers.
- Participate directly in engineering roadmap decisions and product tradeoffs.
- Use the product, review GitHub issues, and incorporate developer feedback into prioritization.
- Own features end-to-end and make rapid decisions using imperfect data.
Requirements
- 3–8 years of experience in product engineering, browser automation, web scraping, or AI-agent tooling for external developers.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js.
- Hands-on depth with Playwright, Puppeteer, browser-use, Stagehand, or Chromium internals.
- Experience owning and shipping features end-to-end, ideally at a startup with fewer than 200 employees.
- Strong focus on developer experience, including API latency, response formats, error messages, and documentation.
- Ability to work hybrid from the San Francisco Bay Area.
- Experience as a founding engineer, Member of Technical Staff, or infrastructure engineer at a DevTools or AI-agent startup is a bonus.
- Repeat-founder or founder-CEO experience with a shipped product and GitHub traction is a bonus.
- Understanding of how AI agents select and use tools and how to make prompt-based browser interaction reliable is a bonus.
Benefits
- Base salary of $235,000–$260,000 plus competitive equity.
- 100% employee medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 50% spouse and child coverage.
- Employer-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
- 401(k) plan.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
- $1,000 annual learning and development stipend.
- Monthly wellness stipend.
- Generous paid time off and a three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
- Pet insurance, snacks, drinks, team lunches, and a loaner electric bike.
- Hybrid work from the San Francisco Bay Area office with regular team offsites.
- Paid work trial lasting one to two weeks, approximately 40 hours, at the full-time rate.
- Open to visa transfers, including OPT and H-1B transfers.
Tech Stack
Categories
Product Engineering
About Lavendo
Lavendo is a San Francisco–based recruiting firm that helps startups and high‑growth companies hire sales, go‑to‑market, and select technical talent. It provides fee-based search services and recruiting programs focused on revenue roles. Founded in 2021 and privately held, Lavendo is headquartered in San Francisco, California.