Founding Engineer ($180K – $225K + Equity) at Kiloforge

About this role

Join Kiloforge, an a16z-backed AI app factory founded by Google Brain and DeepMind researchers, as a Founding Engineer to build autonomous application generation systems. You'll ship one complete niche application weekly while developing the engineering pipeline to scale toward 10,000 self-evolving micro-apps in a high-velocity, 0-to-1 environment.

What you'll do

• Build and deploy one working niche application per week from ideation through marketing
• Extract repeatable patterns from manual workflows to automate the micro-app production pipeline
• Achieve $1M ARR on at least one portfolio app by optimizing cross-promotion and data flywheels
• Own the full stack including infrastructure, deployment, and mobile development
• Work directly with founding team of AI researchers from Google Brain and DeepMind
• Evolve engineering systems to support self-improving application factory

What they're looking for

• TypeScript and React
• Node.js and Python
• LLM integration (Cursor, Claude, GPT-4)
• Full-stack development
• Infrastructure and deployment
• SwiftUI mobile development
• Product thinking and design
• Production software scaling experience

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Backing from a16z, Uncork Capital, YC Partners, and Superhuman founder
• Work with elite AI researchers from Google Brain and DeepMind
• High-velocity weekly product shipping environment
• Opportunity to define AI-directed company operations