Hybrid Founding Engineer – Backend, Architect

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About the role

  • Founding Engineer owning backend decisions and system architecture at early-stage tech startup. Collaborating with co-founders and impacting product's usability and standard.

Responsibilities

  • Share the architectural load with founders and lead backend design and tradeoffs.
  • Lay foundations for services, data models, and integrations that power a fast, interactive UX.
  • Keep the surface area small while we learn, evolving deliberately as the product hardens.
  • Work directly with customers and join sales conversations to keep choices pragmatic.
  • Set how we build at this stage and mentor peers to raise the bar for pace and quality.
  • Operate in greenfield with the need to build safeguards and instrumentation along the way.
  • Form product opinions by regularly meeting with customers to understand needs, validate solutions, and close the loop on what we ship.
  • Build our engineering and broader culture with care and intentionality.

Requirements

  • Some combination of 8 to 12 years in backend or infrastructure work, recent staff scope, or a strong track record owning architecture for a new product.
  • A proven track record of designing systems and supporting engineering teams to deliver while making reasonable decisions between quality and timelines.
  • Significant experience working on greenfield engineering products with experience designing systems from scratch with graceful evolution.
  • Experience at startups or a proven track record of excelling at work beyond the typical scope of an engineering role.
  • Experience at startups or a proven track record of excelling at work beyond the typical scope of an engineering role.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with founder shares versus options.
  • 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision insurance for you and your dependents.
  • Flexible schedules & paid time off, parental leave, and a Work Life Improvement stipend to help you do great work.
  • Sunday scaries free work environment and swag you’ll actually like.

Job title

Founding Engineer – Backend, Architect

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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