Founding Engineer
mid
via Ashby
About this role
ABOUT THE ROLE
Join a pre-seed AI startup as Engineer #4 on the founding team, working directly with the CTO and fellow founding engineers. This is a high-ownership, fast-paced role where you'll ship features to production daily and own entire product areas from concept to deployment. The company is building fully agentic systems that automate complex workflows — technically challenging, high-impact work at the earliest stage.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Ship features to production on a daily cadence
- Own end-to-end product areas from initial concept through deployment
- Design, build, and consume REST APIs on the backend
- Build scalable frontend interfaces with React
- Integrate AI/ML capabilities using providers such as OpenAI or Claude…
What we'd score you on
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Skills match
For this role: javascript, python, react, node.js, rest…
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Level fit
This role is mid-level. We check your trajectory against it.
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Domain experience
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Recency
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Location fit
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