Founding Engineer / Technical Co-Founder

Are you the kind of engineer who wants more than just tickets, standups, and another roadmap?

One of our clients is building AI infrastructure for the restaurant industry with an ambitious vision:

to eliminate administrative work entirely.

They believe restaurants should focus on the guest experience — not scheduling issues, paperwork, staffing chaos, reporting, or operational bottlenecks.

The goal is to build a fully AI-native operating system for restaurants where workflows optimize automatically in real time.

Think:

• Schedules adapting automatically based on bookings, weather, sales, and local events
• Staff preferences integrated directly into operations
• Menus, allergen lists, and operational documentation generated automatically
• Entire restaurant operations managed from a phone or central control hub

Now they're looking for a Founding Engineer / Technical Co-Founder to help build the company from the ground up.

This is not a role for someone looking to maintain systems, sit in endless meetings, or work on isolated features.

This is for someone who wants ownership, speed, influence, and the opportunity to build something meaningful early.

You won't just join a product team.

You'll help shape the product, architecture, technical vision, and company direction together with the founders.

You'll be involved in everything:

• Building and shipping product fast
• Defining the technical architecture
• Making key technical and product decisions
• Building AI-native workflows and infrastructure from scratch
• Owning major parts of the platform
• Working closely with founders and future customers
• Helping shape the long-term direction of the company

You'll have the freedom to experiment, iterate quickly, and take real ownership from day one.

The environment is ambitious, highly collaborative, and fast-moving — with very little bureaucracy and a strong builder mentality.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving difficult problems, thrives in uncertainty, and gets excited by creating products that can genuinely change how an industry operates.

You won't just be joining early.

Requirements

You'll be helping define what the company becomes.

Someone who enjoys building early.

Someone who gets energy from ambiguity rather than waiting for perfect structure.

Someone who naturally takes ownership.

You likely:

• Have 5+ years of experience as a fullstack engineer
• Are strong across both frontend and backend
• Have built AI-powered products, systems, or workflows
• Enjoy moving quickly and figuring things out
• Communicate clearly and collaborate well
• Want to build something long-term — not just contribute code

Strong Plus If You Have

• Startup experience
• Data engineering background
• Experience with production AI systems
• Strong product thinking
• Founder mentality

Benefits

Why This Opportunity Stands Out

• Opportunity to become a Technical Co-Founder
• Equity package with meaningful upside
• Massive ownership and influence from day one
• Direct collaboration with the founders
• Ability to shape both product and technical direction
• Work on real AI infrastructure and automation systems
• Fast-moving environment with high autonomy and low bureaucracy
• Build from zero to one — not maintain legacy systems
• Early position in a company with strong long-term potential
• Hybrid flexibility
• Opportunity to build a category-defining product within AI and hospitality tech
• Chance to grow with the company as it scales post-fundraising