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Founding Member of Technical Staff

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  • 6+ years

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$165,000 - 225,000/ year

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Everyone owns what they work on, end to end. As a founding engineer you're building the foundations of the company. The bar is simple: do everything within your power to get the job done, and then go find the things that aren't in your power yet and get those done too.

Every MTS at the company must be comfortable with

Product Engineering \ You've taken full-stack products from zero to one. You start from first principles on what the best experience would be and work backwards from there. Users will always ask for things, and you can tell the difference between a one-off request and the change that moves the product forward for everyone. You work across the stack and have the right amount of breadth to execute, measure and iterate end to end.

Infrastructure & Backend Performance \ You know what's out there, you have opinions about what to use when, and you know when not to. You've built long-running durable complex workflows, things that have to survive retries and partial. We ingest every agent session, message, PR, ticket and call across every team we serve. The volume is massive, and we are responsible for ensuring not a single thing gets missed. You are the person who finds the extra 200ms.

Research & Pipeline Optimization \ You know the literature and you're creative on top of it. We're trying to measure something that is very hard to measure: what context makes the user’s agent work better? You can design benchmarks that truly measure the thing, make the judgment calls that go into them, and turn the results into what actually works in the real world. A lot of what we are working towards is uncharted territory, so expect to do a lot of thinking.

Always Forward Deployed \ You own the customer experience end to end. You have deep empathy for the people you deploy with, and you take responsibility for their outcome, not just your part of it. You close the loop with every other function: what you hear from customers turns into signal that improves the product, the infra and the research across the board.\ \ \* You build with agents and for agents and their developers & end users.

\* You build the systems that let a team ship fast without breaking things.

\* You have taste.

\* You build trust with the people around you. You admit what you don't know.

\* You know what to prioritize. 80% of the value comes from 20% of the work, and you can find that 20%.\ \ \ Bonus points

\- You've worked somewhere that handles enormous volume.

\- You've worked in our stack: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind, tRPC, Postgres, Inngest/Temporal, MCP, CLI, plugins.

\- You've been a founder.

\- You’ve built for developers.

\- You've been a real contributor to a large open-source project, or you have a serious side project.

\- You've worked at an early-stage startup before.

Requirements

  • Experience: Any (new grads ok)
  • Visa: Will sponsor

Conditions

Everyone owns what they work on, end to end. As a founding engineer you're building the foundations of the company. The bar is simple: do everything within your power to get the job done, and then go find the things that aren't in your power yet and get those done too.

Every MTS at the company must be comfortable with

Product Engineering \ You've taken full-stack products from zero to one. You start from first principles on what the best experience would be and work backwards from there. Users will always ask for things, and you can tell the difference between a one-off request and the change that moves the product forward for everyone. You work across the stack and have the right amount of breadth to execute, measure and iterate end to end.

Infrastructure & Backend Performance \ You know what's out there, you have opinions about what to use when, and you know when not to. You've built long-running durable complex workflows, things that have to survive retries and partial. We ingest every agent session, message, PR, ticket and call across every team we serve. The volume is massive, and we are responsible for ensuring not a single thing gets missed. You are the person who finds the extra 200ms.

Research & Pipeline Optimization \ You know the literature and you're creative on top of it. We're trying to measure something that is very hard to measure: what context makes the user’s agent work better? You can design benchmarks that truly measure the thing, make the judgment calls that go into them, and turn the results into what actually works in the real world. A lot of what we are working towards is uncharted territory, so expect to do a lot of thinking.

Always Forward Deployed \ You own the customer experience end to end. You have deep empathy for the people you deploy with, and you take responsibility for their outcome, not just your part of it. You close the loop with every other function: what you hear from customers turns into signal that improves the product, the infra and the research across the board.\ \ \* You build with agents and for agents and their developers & end users.

\* You build the systems that let a team ship fast without breaking things.

\* You have taste.

\* You build trust with the people around you. You admit what you don't know.

\* You know what to prioritize. 80% of the value comes from 20% of the work, and you can find that 20%.\ \ \ Bonus points

\- You've worked somewhere that handles enormous volume.

\- You've worked in our stack: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Tailwind, tRPC, Postgres, Inngest/Temporal, MCP, CLI, plugins.

\- You've been a founder.

\- You’ve built for developers.

\- You've been a real contributor to a large open-source project, or you have a serious side project.

\- You've worked at an early-stage startup before.

Where you’d work

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The office

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Actively hiring

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  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 3 h agoModerate evidence
  • Specific about the basics: pay, place, level, stack and contract all statedSlight evidence
  • States its salarySlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • A hiring contact is attached to itSlight evidence

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  • Posted 4 weeks agoSlight evidence

How crowded?

7 checks

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
  • Senior level: far fewer people qualifySlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Asks for Next.js, which only 1% of open roles doSlight evidence

Against it2

  • Open for 4 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence

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Details12 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • JavaScript
Seniority
Staff
Type
Full-time
Specialty
Fullstack
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Fullstack
Seniority
Staff
Experience
6+ years
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • PostgreSQL
  • JavaScript

Location

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

Compensation

Salary
$165,000 - 225,000 / year
Pay period
Annual

Employment

Type
Full-time

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