Founding Software Engineer
Founding Software Engineer
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11-07-2025
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Job Description
Job Title: Founding Software Engineer
Location: Remote
Work hours: Monday to Friday US hours
Position Summary
About This Role
Were looking for a founding engineer to join our U.S. client s early-stage startup as one of the first software engineers. This isnt a typical engineering role - youll be a key architect of both the product and company culture with the primary mission of helping the team achieve their vision rapidly.
As a founding engineer youll wear many hats and work directly with leadership to build something people truly want. Youll have significant upside and the opportunity to shape the technical direction from the ground up.
Your engineering decisions technology choices and daily priorities should be guided by one overarching goal: building a product that users love and that creates a sustainable profitable business.
Key Responsibilities
Product Development
Strategic Thinking
Technical Skills
Impact & Learning
Were looking for someone who gets excited about building from zero to one and wants to be part of a founding team. If youre energized by the challenge of finding product-market fit and want significant ownership in building something meaningful wed love to hear from you.
Please include:
Location: Remote
Work hours: Monday to Friday US hours
Position Summary
About This Role
Were looking for a founding engineer to join our U.S. client s early-stage startup as one of the first software engineers. This isnt a typical engineering role - youll be a key architect of both the product and company culture with the primary mission of helping the team achieve their vision rapidly.
As a founding engineer youll wear many hats and work directly with leadership to build something people truly want. Youll have significant upside and the opportunity to shape the technical direction from the ground up.
Your engineering decisions technology choices and daily priorities should be guided by one overarching goal: building a product that users love and that creates a sustainable profitable business.
Key Responsibilities
Product Development
- Build features MVPs and capabilities rapidly using strong development practices.
- Lead engineering decisions that balance speed of development and engineering excellence.
- Lead technical design reviews and conversations with CTO
- Balance technical debt strategically use it tactically to accelerate development pay it down when it blocks progress
- Evolve technical architecture as product requirements become clearer through user feedback
- Write high quality documentation FAQs and user guides.
Strategic Thinking
- Provide technical feasibility input before features are designed
- Help leadership understand complexity and time investment for different approaches
- Balance short-term feature delivery with long-term technical enablers
- Make build vs. buy decisions based on core competencies and resource constraints
Technical Skills
- Full-stack capabilities: Comfortable working across the entire stack as needed. Tech stack includes Typescript/React/NextJS GitHub Python Supabase Vercel.
- Expertise developing with AI tools like Cursor.
- Ability to pick up new technologies and explore their applications independently.
- Comfort with uncertainty: Thrives in ambiguous environments where requirements change rapidly
- Bias for action: Prefers shipping imperfect solutions over perfect plans
- Resourcefulness: Creative problem-solver who can work within constraints
- Cross-functional partnership: Works effectively with non-technical team members
- Technical communication: Can explain complex technical concepts to business stakeholders
- At least 2 years of software engineering experience at early-stage companies
- Proven track record of shipping products that users actually use
Impact & Learning
- Massive impact: Your decisions directly affect company success and user experience
- Broad exposure: See all parts of the business from product to sales to operations
- Rapid growth: Learn faster than you would at a larger more structured company
- Technical ownership: Shape our entire technical architecture and engineering culture
- Competitive salary: Market-rate base compensation
- Fast-paced: Expect to move quickly and iterate often
- Collaborative: Work directly with founders and top industry leaders in tech
- Ownership culture: Take ownership of problems and solutions
- Direct mentorship: Work closely with experienced founders and advisors
- Technical autonomy: Freedom to make architectural decisions with minimal bureaucracy
- Transparent communication: Regular updates on company progress challenges and opportunities
Were looking for someone who gets excited about building from zero to one and wants to be part of a founding team. If youre energized by the challenge of finding product-market fit and want significant ownership in building something meaningful wed love to hear from you.
Please include:
- Your resume highlighting relevant startup/early-stage experience
- A brief cover letter explaining why you want to be a founding engineer
- Examples of products youve built that real users adopted
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
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