Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: San Francisco

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

We're a seed-stage startup building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. We're looking for our first engineering hire — someone who will own core systems end-to-end, set the engineering patterns that every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship production-ready software every day.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role for an engineer who thrives in ambiguity, loves building from zero to one, and wants their technical fingerprints on the entire stack.

What You'll Do

• Own core systems end-to-end: agent platform, infrastructure, and the integrations runtime.

• Define and establish the engineering patterns and standards that every future hire will build upon.

• Work directly with the founders — your opinions and technical leadership matter as much as your code.

• Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable, and well-instrumented systems.

What We're Looking For

Must-haves (dealbreakers):

• 3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems.

• Proven ability to build something 0 to 1 — in an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.

• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend development.

• Proficiency in Node.js for backend development.

• Hands-on experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.

Required skills:

• Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure.

• Experience with PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.

• Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.

• Experience implementing observability, monitoring, and distributed tracing in production systems.

• Experience building reliable retry and queuing patterns in distributed systems.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in fast-paced startup environments.

• Experience setting engineering patterns and standards for growing teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience.

• Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

• On-site in San Francisco, CA.

• This is not a remote role.