Founding Engineer

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ABOUT THE ROLE This is the first engineering hire at an early-stage B2B SaaS startup building AI-powered workflow automation for distributors and manufacturers. You'll work directly alongside the founders, owning problems end to end — from understanding customer workflows to designing, building, and shipping production features. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Talk directly with customers to understand their workflows and surface the right problems to solve. - Build across the full stack: customer-facing features, AI agents, third-party integrations, and infrastructure. - Improve the evals, tests, and tooling that make each new customer implementation faster and more reliable. - Ship your first feature to a live customer within your first week. - Design and implement a customer-driven feature end to end within your first month. - Own a meaningful surface area of the product, end to end, within your first quarter. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Hands-on full-stack development experience shipping production web applications with TypeScript, Next.js, and Python. - Demonstrated experience building production-ready AI agents, including context engineering, tool design, and evaluation frameworks. - Experience deploying and managing applications on Google Cloud Platform. - Experience integrating with legacy systems, APIs, and third-party software platforms (ERP/CRM experience is a plus). - Comfort conducting customer discovery and translating business problems into technical solutions. - Experience building and maintaining automated testing, evaluation frameworks, and observability tooling for production systems. - Prior experience in early-stage startup environments with small teams and rapid iteration cycles. - Familiarity with LLM frameworks, prompt engineering, or AI agent orchestration tools is a strong plus. - Background in B2B operations automation or enterprise software integration is a plus. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Salary range: $140,000 – $220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, CA.