Founding Engineer

1 year ago

Responsibilities

Architect and build scalable APIs, backend services, and web application components.
Develop data pipelines, AI agents, web UIs, and deployment systems across the stack.
Design and implement internal tooling, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines.
Collaborate with product and design to prototype and ship features quickly.
Define engineering processes, contribute documentation, and help grow the early team.

5+ years of experience as a full stack or backend engineer.
Experience owning and delivering production systems end to end.
Experience with modern frontend frameworks, especially React and Next.js.
Familiarity with APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, or deployment workflows at scale.
Ability to work autonomously in an early-stage startup and adapt quickly to new technologies.
Strong ownership, architectural thinking, communication, and pragmatic teamwork.
Prior startup, founder, founding engineer, or 0-to-1 pre-seed experience is preferred.
Open-source or impactful internal-tools contributions and interest in data systems, agent workflows, or LLM orchestration are bonuses.

Full-time role in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Competitive salary and meaningful founding-tier equity.
Early ownership and influence over product and technical direction.
Opportunity to work across AI, data infrastructure, agents, and enterprise-scale platforms.
Strong engineering culture, rapid learning opportunities, and exposure to emerging AI workflows and deployment patterns.

1-10 employees