Founding Engineer

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates should be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Qualifications

• Experience may range from 1 to 10+ years; demonstrated ability to ship products or major features used by real customers matters more than a specific career path.
• Prior founding engineer, founder, or early engineering hire experience at a startup is strongly valued.
• Strong full-stack skills, including backend systems, frontend development, and relational database design.
• Relevant technologies include Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, Postgres, GCP, and commercial LLM providers. Strong engineers with other stacks should be comfortable learning Kotlin.
• Experience processing PDFs, unstructured data, or workflows in manufacturing, supply chain, or other traditional industries is helpful.
• A track record of increasing ownership and delivering practical solutions in fast-moving environments.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary is $160,000 to $200,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 2% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• Location
• On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates should be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building production AI or LLM products, agents, retrieval systems, or automation is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services that ingest and process documents from customer systems and inboxes.
• Develop AI agents that complete complex compliance and food safety documents.
• Own features end to end, from backend services and data models through to the user interface.
• Ship quickly, learn from customer feedback, and adapt priorities as the company grows.
• Contribute across product engineering, infrastructure, and application development as needed.
• Experience may range from 1 to 10+ years; demonstrated ability to ship products or major features used by real customers matters more than a specific career path.
• Prior founding engineer, founder, or early engineering hire experience at a startup is strongly valued.
• Strong full-stack skills, including backend systems, frontend development, and relational database design.
• Experience building production AI or LLM products, agents, retrieval systems, or automation is a plus.
• Relevant technologies include Kotlin, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, Postgres, GCP, and commercial LLM providers. Strong engineers with other stacks should be comfortable learning Kotlin.
• Experience processing PDFs, unstructured data, or workflows in manufacturing, supply chain, or other traditional industries is helpful.
• A track record of increasing ownership and delivering practical solutions in fast-moving environments.
• Base salary is $160,000 to $200,000 annually, plus 0.5% to 2% equity. Visa sponsorship is not available.
• On-site in San Francisco, California. Candidates should be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate.