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Founding Engineer, Full-stack

Outbound


Job Location:

San Francisco, CA - USA

Yearly Salary: USD 150000 - 220000
Posted: 29 September 2026 (Yesterday)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Foam

Foam aims to be the highest signal tool out there to solve software bugs.

Weve spent countless hours maintaining production systems and handling on-call rotations when wed rather have spent time developing core business. Most code is now AI-generated but we fear debugging will still be left to us humans. So we decided to build Foam to ensure engineering jobs become more engaging focused on high-level technical development and creativity.

Weve raised $2.4M from South Park Commons and The House Fund. Our investors have previously backed notable companies including Pilot Transcend Perplexity AI and Superhuman.

About the team

Perla Gamez Founder & CEO

Shawn Krisman Founder & CTO

About the role

We are looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our growing engineering this role you will be responsible for owning and expanding our core backend infrastructure.

What youll do

  • Designing and implementing scalable reliable backend systems

  • Improving the performance security and maintainability of our codebase

  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to address user needs and deliver new features

  • Staying up-to-date with the latest backend technologies and best practices

What youll bring

  • 5 years of proven experience as a Full Stack Engineer with a strong proficiency in for backend development (TypeScript JavaScript )

  • Strong tenures (2 - 4 years) at reputable VC-backed startups

  • Experience building products from 0 to 1 or serving as tech lead preferred

  • Able to take undefined product thinking & independently scope

  • Based in the Bay Area excited to work grow our in-person eng team in SF.

  • Experience with LLM Applications RAG

Wed love to see

  • Experience working at an AI startup

  • Has built complex AI applications such as chatbots

  • Evidence of having gone through hard experiences (i.e. CS degree at a top school; growing with an early stage startup)

Employee benefits

100% Coverage Medical Dental and Vision

401K

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Required Experience:

IC