Founding Engineer Jobs

BetterDB is building the tooling ecosystem for Valkey (a high-performance Redis fork). Focus is on observability: historical persistence, pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and Prometheus export. They ship OSS self-hosted and are launching a cloud…

On Time Bride is an innovative wedding planning platform for couples, vendors, and planners. The company is in early growth, post-MVP, and scaling across Canada. They are hiring their first (founding) engineer to take over development from an outsou…

Virio.ai is an AI marketer that writes LinkedIn content for every employee at your company. Grew over $1M ARR in 30 days. Hiring: Product Engineer (strong product sense, ships fast, designer), Senior SWE (infrastructure, ETL pipelines), Founding Eng…

Quest | San Francisco | Onsite. New consumer AI company, raised $6M pre-seed. Looking for founding engineers. $200k+ base, significant equity. Reach out to founders@newquest.ai

Accel-backed, UK-founded security product company focused on canaries for intrusion detection. Customers include Docker, Riot Games, Synthesia, Zepz. Hiring founding roles in London and New York: Founding Engineer (London), Founding Account Executiv…

Founding Engineer Wanted | Defense Startup | Munich/Remote Can You Solve This? The Challenge: An FPV drone flies at 100 km/h. You have to detect, track, and intercept it physically. No Cloud. Just on-board compute using: • YOLOv8 Nano on Qualcomm QR…

String is building a scraping platform to collect web data reliably. The company has acquired enterprise customers, built infrastructure to scrape 30M+ pages/week, and raised a seed round while being cash-flow positive. The engineering culture empha…

Halfpricesoft, a profitable bootstrapped company in the small business payroll and tax compliance space, is transitioning legacy solutions to a modern cloud-native suite and seeks a Founding Engineer. You will report directly to the Founder, own the…

Hands-on technical leadership role at an early-stage fintech startup building a platform for sophisticated investment strategies. Architect and build scalable systems, establish engineering best practices, own end-to-end delivery from conception to …

Crimson is the AI platform for high-stakes litigation. We’re a fast-growing YC-backed company working with leading law firms. We’re looking for an exceptional full-stack engineer to join us as one of our first employees. You'll ship production code …

First hire outside the three co-founders to own infrastructure, DevOps, and compliance. Transition build pipeline from manual updates to automated delivery scaling to thousands of agencies. Manage infrastructure across AWS, GCP, Azure and AI provide…

Hiring founding engineers and a designer for Vidably (San Francisco, onsite). Vidably recently closed a $1.5M pre-seed. Product: puts verified buyer video directly onto e-commerce product pages via a lightweight widget by capturing post-purchase vid…

We are an AI-driven Hospitality Tech platform helping vacation rental owners automate their revenue on Booking.com. We are bootstrapped, profitable (£100k ARR), and growing month-on-month. We are looking for a Founding Engineer (Python/Django) to pa…

Stardrift is hiring a founding engineer to join a team of 3 in San Francisco. The role focuses on building a personalized AI travel agent: optimizing LLM performance, building evaluation frameworks, integrating with rail and flight network APIs worl…

We’re building a general AI for humanoid robots using world-model-based reinforcement learning trained on large-scale real-world data. This is a founding engineer role. You’ll work directly with the founders and own core parts of the training and da…

Gauge helps companies show up in more AI answers. Search traffic is shifting away from Google into AI chat, and companies are figuring out how to adapt right now. Our system delivers real-time analytics derived from millions of LLM answers, while pr…

Hatchet is an open-source platform for running background jobs at scale. Hiring engineers to build the next class of engineering primitives (queues, background tasks, durable execution). Founded early 2024 after launching a distributed task queue. U…

Founding Engineer @ Conductor (San Francisco, ONSITE). Conductor lets you run a team of coding agents on your Mac. We launched in July through Show HN, and are used by engineers at companies like Linear, Vercel, Notion, Stripe, and YC. We’re on a mi…

Bevyl is a seed-funded startup building AI-powered content creation tools for consumer brands. We're making it possible for brands to produce high-quality social media content at scale without agencies or massive creative teams. You'll work with the…