Technical Ex-Founder

Slingshot AI

Slingshot AI is the team behind Ash the first AI designed for mental health. Our mission is to make support more accessible and help people change their lives in the ways they want.

Were building a world-class team by empowering individuals with the autonomy flexibility and support they need to do their best work. We dream big iterate fast and care deeply. If that sounds like you wed love to hear from you.

Our team spans machine learning product engineering conversational design clinical growth and operations with offices in both New York City and London.

Were a well-funded Series A company having raised $93M from Andreessen Horowitz Radical Ventures Forerunner Ventures plus top-tier tech investors involved in ElevenLabs Captions Shopify Plaid Notion Canva Twitch Airtable and many others.

The role

Were looking for Technical Ex-Founders to join our Engineering team. If you wrote your companys early code operated it through real user growth and miss building and shipping more than you miss anything else about the founder job this role is for you.

Engineers whove founded or been the early technical leader at a startup tend to thrive at Slingshot because they get to work autonomously and own a large set of problems. Theyre product-minded owners by default comfortable defining a problem talking to users building a solution and iterating. Well always have a place for smart and motivated technical people who have built and scaled something interesting.

Our tech stack uses Kotlin for core backend services Python for our ML work Dart/Flutter for the app for internal tooling as well as Rust for low level media streaming. We use gRPC and GCP (Kubernetes Cloud Run) as our primary cloud provider. Youre not required to be an expert in all of these tools but we would like you to come with a learning mindset and to not be afraid of getting your hands dirty with whatever tool the job might require.

What we look for

• You founded or were the early technical lead at a startup wrote a meaningful share of the production code yourself and operated it through meaningful user growth.

• 6 years of (recent) hands-on engineering experience with opinions on trade-offs and quality formed by having to live with your own decisions in production.

• Comfortable building inside AI/ML codebases. We dont need you to be an ML Engineer but having an interest in AI helps!

If this sounds like you wed love to hear from you. A short note about what you built last what youd want to build next and links to anything youve shipped (projects repos writing) is more useful to us than a polished CV.

What we offer:

• A chance to join a passionate tight-knit team working on something to change the world

• Competitive compensation (top of personal market)

• Travel between our NYC / London offices

• Usual startup perks like free lunch and coffee in office generous learning budget

• We cover your personal therapy

Required Experience:

Founder