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$130,000 - 170,000/ year

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Description

The company is a native macOS terminal built on Ghostty, designed for running multiple AI coding agents in parallel. Hundreds of thousands of developers use the company to drive their agentic coding workflows.\ \ Check us out at the company's site (the company's site) and on GitHub (the company's site).\ \ We're hiring talented founding engineers to help us build the future of coding with AI.

Responsibilities

  • \- Build frontier devtools across the stack: the company macOS (Swift/AppKit), the company TUI (Rust), the company Windows/Linux (C++/Chromium), the company iOS, the company Cloud, subrouter (Go), chatmux, and more
  • \- Help invent the most useful product for developers to do work with AI
  • \- Own products and features end to end, including user feedback loops
  • \- Dogfood, test, and verify constantly; use the company to build the company
  • Who we're looking for
  • No hard requirements. We want talented builders from any background.
  • Things that make us extra excited:\ \ \- You use 10B+ tokens a day
  • \- All-rounders and creative problem solvers
  • \- Great design taste and care for the craft
  • \- Swift/AppKit, C++, Rust, Go, or Chromium experience
  • \- Open-source maintainers, former founders, people who ship complete products
  • \- Sending the company PRs for us to review or demoing custom the company plugins / workflows
  • Details
  • \- Compensation: 130k - 170k + 0.5% - 1.5% equity
  • \- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • \- Location: San Francisco
  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: Will sponsor

Where you’d work

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The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Office in San Francisco, United States

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Mixed signals

In its favour3

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 h agoModerate evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Posted 5 weeks ago, older than 87% of the open roles we trackModerate evidence
  • None of the company's 3 open roles was posted in the last 2 weeksModerate evidence

How crowded?

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Low

In its favour4

  • You can message the hiring contact and skip the queueModerate evidence
  • In the office in San Francisco: only people nearby can take itSlight evidence
  • Asks for Swift, which only 1% of open roles doSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Pays below most similar roles, which thins the crowdSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Open for 5 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence

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Details10 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • Go
  • Swift
  • C++
  • Rust
  • iOS
  • Linux
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Tech stack
  • Go
  • Swift
  • C++
  • Rust
  • iOS
  • Linux

Location

Work model
Office
Region
United States
Office
  • San Francisco, United States
Visa sponsorship
Sponsored

Compensation

Salary
$130,000 - 170,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

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