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Founding Software Engineer

  • Office
  • 0-3 years

Salary

$100,000 - 160,000/ year

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Description

The company (the company's site) is Vercel for MCP.\ We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.\ the company Cloud usage is more than doubling every month.

Our focus: capture a significant share of global AI tool calls that flow through the company.

About the role

We're hiring a founding engineer to own the product.

You'll work on the company's site (the company's site) itself. This is a product role as much as an engineering one. You decide what gets built, not just how. Ship it, watch users use it, fix what's wrong the same week.

What you'll own

Build and ship the the company MCP Cloud product end-to-end. Own the UX/DX of the platform: the deploy flow, the dashboard, the inspector, the docs surface. Set the technical direction of the product together with the founders. Talk to users, watch them use what you built, and improve.

Requirements

  • High agency, fast, and opinionated about how LLMs interact with the world through MCP.
  • You are already in the MCP space (or excited about it).
  • Great product taste. You can tell good from bad and say why. You have taste for makers (https://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html).
  • 10x engineer. You ship in a day what takes a team a week, and it holds up in production. You are a great hacker (https://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html).
  • Speed of execution. Startups move quickly (https://www.paulgraham.com/startuplessons.html).
  • Must be smarter than the founders (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU5eQiZFdlI).
  • Based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco.
  • What you're getting
  • You're setting the foundation.
  • Work directly with the founders and shape the company's technical strategy.
  • Above market equity in a rocket ship.
  • What you can expect at the company
  • Burn a lot of tokens
  • Above market equity
  • Premium medical + dependent coverage
  • Small, trusting team of senior + staff engineers
  • Unlimited PTO
  • 401k + company match
  • Relocation assistance
  • Experience: 1+ years
  • Visa: Will sponsor

Where you’d work

From the office

The office

Relocation offered

Visa sponsored

About the company

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Office in San Francisco, United States

Your chances

Likely still hiring, moderately crowded, and a person reads your message.

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  • 6 red flags

Still hiring?

12 checks

Likely active

In its favour4

  • Still on the company's own careers site, checked 4 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

Against it2

  • Posted 5 weeks ago, older than 85% of the open roles we trackModerate evidence
  • Pays less than 90% of similar roles we trackSlight evidence

How crowded?

8 checks

Moderate

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 Next.js, which only 1% of open roles doSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Pays below most similar roles, which thins the crowdSlight evidence

Against it4

  • Open for 5 weeks: applications have had time to pile upModerate evidence
  • Entry level: the most applied-to level there isModerate evidence
  • Offers relocation: people from other countries apply tooSlight evidence
1 moreFewer
  • Sponsors visas: applicants from abroad compete for it tooSlight evidence
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Details13 facts · Role, Location, Compensation, Employment
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • LLMs
Type
Full-time
Equity
Equity offered
Specialty
Frontend
Region
United States
Pay period
Annual
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Role

Category
Development
Specialty
Frontend
Experience
1+ years
Tech stack
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • HTML & CSS
  • LLMs

Location

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

Compensation

Salary
$100,000 - 160,000 / year
Pay period
Annual
Equity
Equity offered

Employment

Type
Full-time

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