Founding Engineer

About the role

We're a small, fast-moving team building an agentic integration platform for the physical economy - helping supply chain businesses connect their ERP, WMS, OMS, TMS, EDI, and logistics systems in hours instead of months. Our AI-generated integration platform is already serving paying enterprise customers, and we're now bringing on our first engineering hire . This is a true founding engineer role: you'll own core systems end-to-end, set the technical patterns every future hire builds on, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders to ship reliable, production-grade software every day.

Responsibilities

• Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
• Establish engineering patterns, conventions, and architecture decisions that will define how the team operates as it scales.
• Partner directly with the founders - your technical opinion matters as much as your code.
• Ship to production constantly, building observable, reliable, and resilient distributed systems.
• Drive end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.

Requirements

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend.
• Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 - whether at an early-stage startup or through serious side projects.
• Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
• Hands-on experience with AWS (cloud infrastructure) and PostgreSQL (data storage).
• Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing , and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
• Track record of owning features across the full stack - frontend, backend, and infra - with measurable customer outcomes.
• Familiarity with Bun , Effect-TS , or Kubernetes .
• Background in supply chain, logistics, or enterprise SaaS integrations.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Salary: $150,000 - $250,000 USD annually (depending on experience)
• Equity participation as a founding team member
• Visa sponsorship available
• Location
• On-site in San Francisco, CA
• This is an in-person role - we work together closely as a small team

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