Founding Engineer

Founding Engineer

Role description

Entrepreneurial and self-motivated engineer with a focus on backend

Able to both hack projects quickly and scale up existing projects, motivated by product / users in addition to the engineering work itself

Drive prototyping / MVP development with a fast-paced and experimental process, maintaining the goal of learning from technical obstacles and user feedback, and iterating quickly

Requirements

You are at a point in your life where you want to make an impact on world scale, believe this is truly possible by leveraging AI, and searching for a highly motivated team to make it happen.

You have a deep sense of urgency and want to solve problems at high speed.

You must use AI tools daily (Cursor, Windsurf, Continue.dev, Devin, etc)

You are familiar with the open source AI ecosystem (Ollama, tool calling, Deepseek’s innovations)

Knowledge of distributed systems (distributed databases, queues, workflow engines like Temporal)

Kubernetes

Nice to have

Go, Rust

GraphQL

Cassandra / Scylla

Open Source Contributions

History of participating in programming competitions

We seek experienced engineers who are first-principles thinkers, eager to experiment rapidly

Compensation will be a mix of cash and equity. This role will come with significant upside in the company.

Stack: Go, Temporal, K8s, Rust, TypeScript (NextJS), AWS Nitro, Intel TDX