About the Role
We're a seed-stage startup building an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers. As our first engineering hire, you'll own core systems end-to-end and set the engineering patterns that every future hire builds on. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founders — we want your opinion, not just your code — and ship production-ready systems from day one.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the technical foundation of a company at its earliest stage, in one of the most exciting areas of software: AI agents and workflow automation.
What You'll Do
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Own the agent platform, infrastructure, and integrations runtime end-to-end.
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Define and establish the engineering patterns, standards, and architecture that every future engineer builds on.
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Collaborate directly with the founders, contributing strong technical opinions and leadership.
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Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable, and scalable systems.
What We're Looking For
Must-haves:
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3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments; startup experience strongly preferred.
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Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend, and Node.js for backend development.
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Demonstrated ability to build something 0 to 1 — whether at an early-stage startup or through a serious side project.
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Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
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Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infrastructure with measurable customer impact.
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Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.
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Hands-on experience with AWS for cloud infrastructure and PostgreSQL for data storage.
Nice to have:
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Familiarity with Bun, Effect-TS, or Kubernetes.
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Background at a high-growth product company or enterprise SaaS environment.
Compensation & Benefits
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Salary: $150,000 – $250,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
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Equity participation as the first engineering hire.
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Visa sponsorship available.
Location
This role is on-site in San Francisco, CA. We work together in person — it's important to us at this stage of the company.
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