[Hiring] Founding Software Engineer @Recruiting From Scratch

Role Description

As a Founding Software Engineer, you will play a key role in building and scaling the company’s core product and infrastructure from day one. You’ll work closely with the founders and early engineers, owning meaningful projects end-to-end.

• Designing and building complex data-capture and workflow systems across web and desktop environments
• Developing frontend-heavy full-stack applications using modern JavaScript frameworks
• Architecting and optimizing high-throughput, production-grade data pipelines
• Collaborating with product and engineering leadership to define product strategy and ship quickly
• Establishing engineering best practices, tooling, and technical standards as the team scales
• Taking ownership of systems that directly impact customers and core business outcomes

Qualifications

• 4–10 years of professional experience as a full-stack or frontend-leaning software engineer
• Strong experience building and scaling production web applications
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (especially React and Next.js) and Python
• Experience designing or working with data-intensive systems and workflows
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and ambiguity
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate in a remote, distributed team

Requirements

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or GCP
• Familiarity with distributed systems and messaging tools (e.g., Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch)
• Exposure to containerized or orchestrated environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Prior experience helping define systems or infrastructure at an early-stage company
• Interest in data infrastructure, developer tooling, or AI-adjacent products

Benefits

• Base Salary: $60,000 – $90,000 USD (dependent on experience)
• Equity: Competitive equity package
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Work Environment: Fully remote, collaborating with a US-based team
• Growth Opportunity: High ownership role with potential to grow into technical leadership as the company scales
• Impact: Direct influence on product, architecture, and company direction from the earliest stages

Company Description

Our client is an early-stage, venture-backed technology startup building critical data infrastructure that powers advanced AI and machine learning systems. The company works at the intersection of data, developer tooling, and scalable infrastructure, supporting fast-growing technology companies and cutting-edge AI use cases.

Backed by top-tier investors and founded by a highly technical, talent-dense team, the company is experiencing rapid growth and is expanding its founding engineering group. This is an opportunity to join at the ground floor and have a direct impact on both product direction and technical foundations.