Founding Engineer – Full Stack — Jampack AI

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid, strong in-person preference)

Compensation: $160,000 – $220,000 base + 0.1% – 0.5% equity

Visa Sponsorship: None available

Experience Level: 2–5 years

Employment Type: Full-Time

About Jampack AI

Jampack AI is building an AI-native operating platform for wholesale CPG operations, automating the full order-to-cash lifecycle from purchase order ingestion through freight coordination, invoicing, and payment reconciliation.

Market traction:

• Processing $500M+ annualized wholesale volume
• Live production platform with real customers including Fishwife, Immi, Ghia, Path Water, and Sanzo
• $3.2M seed funding led by Maveron (co-founded by Howard Schultz) with Timber Grove Ventures participation
• Co-founder scaled a CPG company from $0 to $40M in 18 months; CTO has prior engineering leadership at scale

About The Role

This is a true founding engineering ownership role. This is not feature factory full-stack work. This is not low-stakes product engineering. This is mission-critical infrastructure ownership where downtime directly impacts shipments and customer revenue.

The stated moat is not the model — it is the infrastructure scaffolding around real-world AI workflows. Core ownership includes:

• Customer-facing product ownership from concept to production
• Direct customer conversations and solution design
• Event-driven AI workflow infrastructure and internal/external APIs
• ERP, 3PL, retailer, and freight partner integrations
• Real-time operator console development
• Sync-layer reliability engineering, observability, SLO design, and on-call ownership
• Backend, frontend, data, and AI workflow engineering

Requirements

• 2–5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with high-agency startup ownership
• TypeScript and Node.js expertise
• Strong Postgres capability — data modeling and query optimization
• Full-stack engineering ability including React
• Event-driven architecture experience — webhooks, async workflows, external systems integrations
• End-to-end product ownership — ability to take vague ideas to production
• Simplicity-first engineering mindset with reliability ownership
• Clear, direct communication including customer-facing technical communication
• Brooklyn hybrid availability with strong in-person presence

Nice to Have

• Founding engineer or early startup engineering experience
• Logistics, supply chain, freight systems, or CPG software exposure
• B2B SaaS infrastructure experience
• EDI systems experience (SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce)
• Flexport background
• Supabase, Next.js, AI agents, LLM tooling, or agentic production systems

Target Backgrounds

Strong signals include big tech → startup ownership arcs, Flexport or logistics-adjacent backgrounds, mission-critical backend ownership, reliability and observability depth, and real product ownership in startup environments.

This Role Is NOT For

• Big tech-only profiles with no startup ownership
• Job hoppers with weak shipped outcomes
• Low-agency or structured execution-only engineers

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Equity compensation (0.1% – 0.5%)

Interview Process

• Pending approval
• Initial screen
• First round
• Second round
• Offer

Logistics

• Role is hybrid in Brooklyn, NY with strong in-person preference — please only apply if you can commit to this
• No visa sponsorship available

Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Jampack AI.