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# Founding Software Engineer

- **Company:** WITH A Q LLC
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Computer Literacy, Systems Development Life Cycle, TypeScript, Core Voice Platform, Agentic-AI, Low Latency
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25197_c56a904ca86dd20149885b743e60758b

## About the Role

We're looking for someone with a founder mentality - ready to own major product and business outcomes, not just tickets. This role is part founding engineer, part forward-deployed engineer, and part customer success when it's needed - until the CS agents we're building take that over. You'll wear all three hats, and help automate yourself out of the third.

We're building the AI operations layer for hospitality - an agentic workforce that meets guests on any channel (voice, SMS, web chat, email, WhatsApp), in English or Spanish. Our agents don't just answer; they have empathy and personality, and they sell - already closing bookings and upsells at rates above many human call-center reps. We're live in production with real hotels and ski resorts, with integration partners live and a new resort pilot in flight., * 5+ years - Building and operating production backends. Strong in TypeScript.

## Description

You'd be our second founding engineer - architecting core systems from scratch and working shoulder-to-shoulder with all the founders across product, GTM, and ops. Huge surface area, real ownership, design-doc to production.

 * Voice AI - Sub-second voice agents (SIP, warm payment transfers). Latency is a feature.
 * Agents that sell - Conversation design, booking + upsell flows, experiments that turn dialogue into revenue.
 * AI agents & computer use - Agents that act, including computer-use agents driving legacy hospitality tools with no API.
 * Hospitality integrations - Opera Cloud, DerbySoft, Hapi, and the rest of the PMS/POS/ticketing stack. Make systems you don't control behave.
 * Synthetic NPS & call-quality analysis - AI grading every conversation into a weekly feedback loop.
 * Automating the SDLC - Agent-authored code across the lifecycle, with the evals and guardrails that protect quality without giving up speed.
 * High uptime, AI-native ops - Hotels run 24/7; build the kind of reliability they never notice.