Founding Engineer
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We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to join as one of the first technical hires and help shape the product, architecture, and engineering culture from an early stage. This is a hands-on role with high ownership, working closely with the founding team on both product and technical direction.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and ship core product features end-to-end
- Build agents, harness, tools, skills and scale existing agentic workflows
- Make architectural decisions across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Work closely with founders on product direction and technical strategy
- Build scalable, reliable systems that operate in high-traffic production environments
- Develop systems that enable real-time personalization and experimentation
- Balance fast iteration with robustness, performance, and long-term maintainability
- Help define engineering best practices, tooling, and culture
- Founding-level impact and equity
- Direct influence on product, architecture, and technical direction
- Opportunity to work on hard, real-world problems at the intersection of AI, data, and UX
- Build technology that runs on some of the world’s most recognizable D2C brands
- Work closely with an experienced founding team
- Strong generalist engineer with experience across the stack
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent depth)
- Experience building and working with AI agents or agentic systems
- Experience working with large-scale data (event streams, analytics, high-volume datasets)
- Strong understanding of the browser runtime ecosystem (JavaScript execution, DOM, performance, security, edge cases)
- Solid fundamentals in system design, APIs, data modeling, and performance
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and making high-impact technical decisions
- Strong ownership mindset — you care deeply about outcomes, not just implementation
- We don’t expect expertise in everything, but you should be comfortable working across much of the following:
- Backend: Node.js, JavaScript
- Frontend: React, JavaScript
- Cloud & Infra: GCP
- Data: BigQuery, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Messaging / Streaming: Google Pub/Sub
- Experience with AI/ML-powered products
- Background in experimentation, personalization, analytics, or growth platforms
- Previous early-stage startup or founding experience
- Experience owning and operating production systems in customer-facing environments
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