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People Culture Talent

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CAfulltimemidAdded 3 days ago

About this role

PCT is a talent partner connecting exceptional engineers with early-stage, venture-backed startups seeking founding engineers to build products from the ground up. You'll join small technical teams with significant autonomy, shape technical direction, and have outsized impact on product and company trajectory alongside founders.

What you'll do

  • Build and launch core products and features from zero to one
  • Make foundational architecture and technology decisions that influence company scaling
  • Work across the full stack based on product and business needs
  • Partner with founders and customers to translate ideas into working products
  • Establish engineering practices, systems, and standards as the team grows
  • Contribute to hiring and building the engineering organization

What they're looking for

  • Full-stack software engineering
  • Technical architecture and design
  • Pragmatic decision-making in ambiguous environments
  • Product-oriented thinking and customer empathy
  • Ownership and self-direction
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Scaling systems and processes
  • Team building and mentorship
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People Culture Talent

People Culture Talent builds a platform for sophisticated software and AI teams, offering AI infrastructure and developer-focused tools. The company is hiring Developer Relations, Frontend Engineers, Product Engineers, Customer Engineers, and Sales Engineers to strengthen community engagement, enhance user experience, and support technical implementation and sales efforts.

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Likely interview questions

  • Tell us about a time you shipped a high-quality product end-to-end with minimal guidance—what was your approach?
  • Describe a major technical decision you made early in a project that had lasting impact on the codebase.