Job Details

Founding Engineer

Role description

• Entrepreneurial and self-motivated engineer with a focus on backend
• Able to both hack projects quickly and scale up existing projects, motivated by product / users in addition to the engineering work itself
• Drive prototyping / MVP development with a fast-paced and experimental process, maintaining the goal of learning from technical obstacles and user feedback, and iterating quickly

Requirements

• You are at a point in your life where you want to make an impact on world scale, believe this is truly possible by leveraging AI, and searching for a highly motivated team to make it happen.
• You have a deep sense of urgency and want to solve problems at high speed.
• You must use AI tools daily (Cursor, Windsurf, Continue.dev, Devin, etc)
• You are familiar with the open source AI ecosystem (Ollama, tool calling, Deepseek's innovations)
• Knowledge of distributed systems (distributed databases, queues, workflow engines like Temporal)
• Kubernetes

Nice to have

• Go, Rust
• GraphQL
• Cassandra / Scylla
• Open Source Contributions
• History of participating in programming competitions

We seek experienced engineers who are first-principles thinkers, eager to experiment rapidly

Compensation will be a mix of cash and equity. This role will come with significant upside in the company.

Stack: Go, Temporal, K8s, Rust, TypeScript (NextJS), AWS Nitro, Intel TDX