Founding Engineer

About this role

Join a YC-backed enterprise AI startup as a Founding Engineer to build agentic systems at scale. You'll own full-stack development across backend (Go), frontend (React/TypeScript), and AI infrastructure, working autonomously to ship products that solve real enterprise problems.

What you'll do

• Develop and optimize agentic systems for accuracy, reliability, and enterprise-scale deployment
• Own features end-to-end from user research through production, with minimal guidance
• Build full-stack services using Go backend and React/TypeScript frontend
• Engage with users to understand pain points and scope valuable product solutions
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and production monitoring systems
• Champion AI-first development practices and code quality across the team

What they're looking for

• Go (Golang) backend development
• React and TypeScript frontend development
• Agentic systems and LLM engineering
• REST/gRPC APIs and microservices architecture
• CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment workflows
• Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP) and Docker/Kubernetes
• Relational and NoSQL database design
• Full-stack product thinking and rapid iteration

Benefits

• Salary: $120,000–$250,000 USD annually
• Generous equity with outsized founding-level impact
• Unlimited AI tooling budget
• Direct influence on product direction and company strategy
• Work with proven product-market fit and rapidly growing revenue
• On-site collaboration in San Francisco with high-output founding team