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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Digital Waffle
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cursor, Python (Programming Language), Next.js, TypeScript, ReactJS, Large Language Models, Machine Learning Operations, Claude
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25304_a027d82192e061b3281267c623492d06

## About the Role

* Strong commercial engineering experience, ideally as an early hire at a fast-growing startup
 * Strong Python, TypeScript, React and Next.js in production
 * Track record of shipping product end to end, not just contributing to someone else's codebase
 * Comfortable making architectural calls with incomplete information and revisiting them when needed
 * Fluent in modern AI engineering tools and able to use them to materially raise your output
 * Happy working 5 days a week in-person with a small, high-intensity team, * Prior Founding Engineer experience at a YC or similarly fast-growing startup
 * Exposure to AI/LLM product work, agents or ML infrastructure
 * A shipped side project you can talk about with real pride

## Description

* Build core product features end to end across Python, TypeScript, React and Next.js
 * Make foundational architecture, tooling and infrastructure decisions that will carry the product for years
 * Ship fast, iterate on real user feedback and hold a high bar for what goes to production
 * Work directly with the founders on product direction, prioritisation and technical trade-offs
 * Own reliability, performance and cost from the start, not as later problems
 * Shape hiring, engineering culture and standards as the team grows behind you
 * Use AI tooling (Claude, Cursor and similar) across every part of your workflow