Company
Enterprise AI SaaS
FoundingEngineer
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“Founding Engineer. Skills: Full-stack development, AI engineering, Agentic systems. Own product parts end-to-end. Build agentic systems”
What You'll Achieve.
Ship things that create value
Industry & Context.
Razor-sharp problem-solving instincts
Work in San Francisco
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Production experience building backend services in Go, Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship, Experience building frontend applications with React and TypeScript, Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Hands-on experience with automated testing, Hands-on experience with deployment workflows, Hands-on experience with production monitoring/observability, Experience building REST APIs, Experience consuming REST APIs, Experience building gRPC APIs, Experience consuming gRPC APIs, 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience
Nice to Have
Prior startup experience, Prior founding engineer experience, Prior early engineer experience, Experience building AI-driven products, Experience with agentic systems, Experience with LLMs, Experience with prompt engineering, Experience with agent orchestration, Familiarity with AWS, Familiarity with GCP, Familiarity with containerization, Experience with Docker, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with relational databases, Experience with Postgres, Experience with MySQL, Experience with NoSQL databases, AI research background, Experience at an AI coding startup, Experience at an AI tooling startup, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Equivalent practical experience
What You'll Do.
Own product parts end-to-end
Build agentic systems
Improve agentic systems accuracy
Improve agentic systems reliability
Improve agentic systems capability
Work at AI engineering frontier
Perform context engineering
Build agent architectures
Understand user pain points
Champion AI-first development practices
Build self-scaling workflows
Maintain high standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
High-output team
Communication Scope
Talk to users
Process & Methodology
Scope problems
Full Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE A YC-backed enterprise AI SaaS startup is looking for a Founding Engineer to join their small, high-output team in San Francisco. The company is building an agentic operating system for the enterprise, with thousands of agents already deployed at scale-up startups and enterprise companies. They have strong product-market fit and are growing revenue rapidly month-over-month. This is a founding-level role with CTO-level expectations. You'll take vague problems, scope them, build them end-to-end, and ship things that create real value — with no hand-holding and no waiting for specs. You need to be a full-stack engineer, an AI engineer, and a product engineer rolled into one. Former founders are especially encouraged to apply. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own large parts of the product end-to-end — from user insight all the way to production - Build and continuously improve agentic systems: accuracy, reliability, and capability - Work at the frontier of AI engineering — context engineering, tool use, agent architectures - Talk to users, understand their pain points, and scope features that genuinely solve problems - Ship full-stack when needed (Go backend, Vite + React + TypeScript frontend) - Champion AI-first development practices — coding agents, automation, and self-scaling workflows - Review code quickly while maintaining high standards across the codebase WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Must-haves (dealbreakers): - Proven production experience building backend services in Go (Golang) - Authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship Required skills: - Experience building frontend applications with React and TypeScript - Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, deployment workflows, and production monitoring/observability - Experience building and consuming REST and/or gRPC APIs in microservices architectures - 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience (full-stack or equivalent) Strong pluses: - Prior startup experienc
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