Founding Engineer

The role

This is Technical Hire #1 for an AI startup already at ~$400K ARR before their first raise. The product is live and serving paying customers. Now the focus shifts to building scalable, multi-tenant infrastructure capable of supporting thousands of clients. This is a foundational engineering role with a clear track to CTO, depending on experience and impact.

What you’ll do

• Architect and scale the core platform for high uptime and growth
• Re-structure and harden existing infrastructure for multi-tenant scale
• Own technical direction and long-term architectural decisions
• Ship quickly and iterate with real customer feedback
• Help define and hire the future engineering team

Requirements

• Proven 0–1 or early-scale backend / systems experience
• Strong systems thinking and infrastructure design capability
• Experience shipping real production software (not just prototypes)
• Comfortable operating independently in an early-stage environment
• High ownership and agency

Nice to have

• Experience building multi-tenant SaaS platforms
• Background in AI-native products or developer tooling
• Experience hiring or mentoring engineers

Why apply

• Real revenue traction pre-funding
• Active VC conversations
• Foundational ownership from day zero
• Meaningful equity with CTO track