Founding Engineer, Platform

• 5+ years as a backend or platform engineer, with real production experience at scale
• Strong TypeScript, with genuine comfort in functional patterns (Effect, fp-ts or equivalent)
• Deep experience with Postgres, Redis and the realities of running stateful systems in production
• Track record owning problems end to end, from scoping to shipping to supporting live customers
• Comfort making architectural calls with incomplete information in a startup environment
• Experience building systems where reliability, data consistency and cost are first-class concerns
• Fluent with coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor and similar) as part of day-to-day engineering
• Happy with a hybrid San Francisco Bay Area setup and the pace of a seed-stage team, * Prior experience as a founding or very early engineer at a fast-growing startup
• Background in workflow engines, orchestration systems, data pipelines or multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure
• Exposure to AI/LLM product work, agentic systems or eval infrastructure
• Experience with ElectricSQL, TanStack or sync-based architectures
• Prior work shipping to developer or GTM audiences

Salary: $200,000 - $300,000 base plus 0.5% - 1% equity (seed-stage strike price), * Own the backend engine behind every customer workflow: scheduling, batching, idempotency, retries and cancellation

• Design and ship provider integrations across 40+ data providers, handling rate limits, concurrency, failures and cost per call
• Shape the platform architecture as it evolves toward a custom, agent-native compiler and workflow language
• Hold the line on uptime, data consistency and cost per run, treating them as product features rather than ops concerns
• Partner with the technical co-founder on foundational architecture decisions
• Take features from scoping through delivery and close the loop once work lands with customers
• Use coding agents heavily as part of your workflow and own the judgement on what they produce
• Help shape engineering culture, hiring and standards as the team scales from ~13 behind you