Founding Engineer (Full Stack)
DavidJoseph&- Location
- San Francisco, United States
- Workplace
- —
- Employment
- Full Time
- Salary
- USD 180–230/hr
Posted 9d ago
San Francisco, CA
- On-site
- Full-time
Compensation
$180K–$230K + equity
About the Company
Our client is a seed-stage startup building conversational AI agents that run live product demos and autonomous sales for B2B companies — prospects start a conversation and get an instant, interactive demo instead of waiting on a scheduled call. They’ve tripled their customer base in the past month and are backed by strong investors. You’d be one of the first engineers on the team, working directly with the technical founder.
Founded 2025
- Small founding team
Industry
B2B, AI, Software Development
The Role
This is a true full-stack founding role with no fixed lane. You’ll build across the entire product alongside the technical founder — the conversational agent, the embeddable customer-facing experience, the internal platform, the evaluation and self-improvement pipeline, and the infrastructure underneath it. You’ll usually get a problem statement rather than a spec and own the solution end to end, shipping quickly and iterating in production.
What you’ll be doing
- Diagnose and fix live customer agents, then ship fixes to the orchestration layer the same day
- Prototype generative UI that adapts in real time to what each prospect cares about
- Own an eval pipeline: catch quality regressions, trace root causes, roll back, and add tests
- Design and build net-new infrastructure (e.g. versioning so customers can preview agent changes before they go live)
- Move across the stack as the problem requires, including the unglamorous work — CSS, migrations, and customer debugging
Tech stack
Python, React
Requirements
- 1–5 years building full-stack products at a venture-backed B2B SaaS startup (roughly pre-seed through Series C) with real, paying customers
- Genuinely full-stack, with strong front-end, UX, and customer-facing product experience — not backend-only
- Hands-on experience shipping production AI-agent features to real users: LLM agents, RAG pipelines, or agent orchestration (frameworks or custom-built)
- Comfortable working with React and Python
- A CS undergraduate degree
- Thrives in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and takes high ownership
- Strong product instincts, with genuine excitement about turning user feedback into shipped code
Nice to Haves
- Prior experience at a venture-backed sales-tech startup
Why Join
- Founding-team seat with direct access to the technical founder, helping set engineering culture from the ground up
- Real, fast-growing customer traction and strong backing
- Broad scope across agents, product, evals, and infrastructure — the hard problems, not a narrow slice
Details
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work policy: On-site, 5 days a week
- Compensation: $180K–$230K + equity
- Visa sponsorship: Not available (US citizens or Green Card holders)
- Employment type: Full-time
Skills
- CSS
- Python
- React
- LLM
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation
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