Founding Senior Engineer

Join an early-stage AI company building a growth platform for consumer brands. As the second engineer, you will build core product and infrastructure while helping shape the engineering culture and architecture., * Build data infrastructure that tracks merchant lifecycle events and connects actions to outcomes.

• Develop an agentic growth system that assesses operations, identifies opportunities, and executes changes automatically.
• Own full-stack development of the growth engine, with a strong focus on backend systems and infrastructure.
• Build reliable integrations with commerce and advertising platforms, along with orchestration tooling.
• Mentor an engineer while remaining hands-on in daily product development.

Consumer Branding, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Product Development, Operational Audit, Systems Analysis, System Operations, Machine Tool, Advertising, Mentoring, Application Programming Interface (API), * Five to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, with a strong backend focus.

• Experience building production-grade LLM or agentic systems with end-to-end ownership and third-party API integrations.
• Strong skills in data infrastructure, event systems, and API integrations.
• Experience with Python, TypeScript, LLMs, and commerce or marketing tools such as Shopify, advertising APIs, or email platforms.
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers and bringing structure to ambiguous work.
• Early-stage startup or founding engineering experience, or experience helping a startup grow through an early funding stage.
• Strong communication skills and a record of sustained contributions in previous roles.

Base salary is $175,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.