Founding Engineer
Summary
First engineering hire at an early-stage agentic integration platform, owning the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end using TypeScript, React, Node.js, AWS, and PostgreSQL.
About the Role
This is a first engineering hire opportunity at an early-stage agentic integration platform serving paying enterprise customers. You'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire will build on — working shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-ready software.
What You'll Do
Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
Establish engineering patterns and standards that will guide the team as it scales.
Collaborate directly with founders, contributing technical opinion and leadership — not just code.
Ship to production continuously, delivering observable and reliable systems with measurable customer impact.
What We're Looking For
3+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping production systems, ideally in fast-paced startup environments.
Demonstrated ability to take a product from 0 to 1, whether in an early-stage startup or a substantial side project.
Proficiency in TypeScript and React for front-end development.
Proficiency in Node.js for back-end development.
Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
Experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage and database design.
Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
Experience implementing observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
Compensation & Benefits
Salary range: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.
Location
On-site in San Francisco, California, United States.
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