Founding Engineer Jobs - May 2026
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Stealth Startup
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month ago
Founding Engineering role with early IC focus (first 3–6 months) to build a multi-modal AI agent product (voice + SMS + email). Responsibilities include building real-time voice systems (streaming audio, low latency, turn-taking), SMS and email automation wit…
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NYC (in-person 5x/week)
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BetterDB
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey, a high-performance Redis fork backed by AWS, Google, and Oracle. They are starting with observability including historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export to help d…
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BrightCore
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
BrightCore is hiring its first engineer (Founding Engineer) to own key backend work for a gym/fitness SaaS. The role is 70% NestJS/Postgres backend and 30% Coral, an AI agent for member retention using WhatsApp. The ideal candidate can ship solo, has 3–5 year…
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Dublin, Ireland
Compensation
€58–65k salary plus 1.0–1.5% equity
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Recover Systems
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Recover Systems is building infrastructure for restoration work, streamlining remediation contractor operations by handling red tape and headaches. The platform is built from insurance requirements, financial ledgers, and spatial intelligence, collapsing many…
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Onsite in Portland, Maine
Compensation
130-160k + meaningful equity
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Waypoint Learning
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Students with disabilities are not receiving the support they deserve, and Waypoint is changing that by building AI tools that special education teachers use to better support students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs). Hiring a founding engineer …
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NYC, Remote (US)
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One-week challenge; best submission gets $500; top 5 get an immediate final round interview. Deadline: Monday, May 11 @ 12pm ET.
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Octozi
Founding Engineer
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago
Octozi is a revenue-generating seed-stage company building AI agents for clinical development workflows. Bringing a drug to market can take a decade and cost up to $2B, keeping treatments expensive and delaying life-saving therapies for the patients who need …