Founding Engineer

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Founding Engineer

San Francisco

Engineering

In office

Full-time

What You’ll Do

• You will be building an AI paywall editor that serves millions of customers everyday, including touching the front-end Next.js application and back-end high performance Python server.
• Integrating the latest coding models, APIs, and techniques into the editor to improve generation performance.
• Writing and deploying Python code that serves hundreds and thousands of requests each second globally.
• Work cross functionally with the founders, and directly with customers, to design, implement, and deliver the best experiences!
• Wearing a lot more hats than listed above 👷.

What We’re Looking For

• Keen problem solving skills: you are able to cut down ambiguous problems down to first principles and deliver a working solution.
• Strong programming/full-stack foundation: You’re comfortable working on both backend code as well as frontend React code.
• Experience working directly on user-facing products: you are able to figure out and understand what the user needs, including talking to customers
• Stellar cross-functional communication skills: you are able to adapt to our ways of working and be an efficient/effective communicator.
• Owning features end to end: you’ll write your own PRDs/quick specs when necessary, and you test your features end to end to make sure they work and satisfy the requirements

Nice To Haves

• Experience with ML/AI/LLM integration in applications
• Background working with design tools, chat experiences, or vibe coding tools
• Previous experience founding or working at a high-growth startup
• Mobile engineering/mobile experience is a plus

Reasons This Role Might Not Be A Fit

• You’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, or need super structured requirements
• You prefer to only one part of the stack, and aren’t willing to work across everything
• You’ve never worked on systems with many moving parts: Our software has many different moving parts that you will be required to ramp up on

Requirements

• You have 1-4+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping real products.

• This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco - we work from the office 6 days a week (Mon-Sat)

• You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.

• We require US work authorization, but are open to O-1 visa sponsorship for truly exceptional candidates.

Our stack

• Next.js (React/Typescript), Zustand
• Tailwind/Shadcn
• Supabase
• Python/Fly.io
• Mobile: Swift, Flutter, Expo

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Req ID: R1