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Title of Role: Founding Senior Software Engineer
Location: San Francisco, CA
Company Stage of Funding: Series A
Office Type: Onsite (5 Days a Week)
Salary: $210,000 - $300,000 + Equity ( 2%)
Company Description
Our client is a fast-growing AI company at the forefront of redefining how organizations coordinate and automate knowledge work. The company is building a revolutionary platform that leverages real-time organizational email data to dynamically map business workflows - transforming how enterprises operate.
This venture is backed by top-tier investors and founded by leaders with a strong track record of success, including building previous unicorn companies in the B2B SaaS space. With a vision rooted in solving complex enterprise challenges, this team brings a unique blend of high-caliber talent, a compelling product vision, and deep industry expertise.
As a recruiting partner, we are thrilled to represent this opportunity and help scale an exceptional founding engineering team.
What You Will Do
- Join as a Founding Engineer and play a critical role in shaping both the product and engineering culture from the ground up.
- Design and build highly scalable backend infrastructure to support real-time data processing, AI-powered workflow mapping, and enterprise integrations.
- Collaborate directly with product visionaries and technical leadership to execute a bold roadmap focused on solving enterprise-scale challenges.
- Own end-to-end systems, from architecture to deployment, with opportunities to take on increasing leadership as the team scales.
- Contribute meaningfully to technical hiring, process definition, and product direction in a high-ownership environment.
Ideal Candidate Background
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally at high-growth, high-talent-density B2B SaaS companies.
- Strong individual contributor track record (not more than 1 year in a purely management-focused role).
- Expertise in backend infrastructure, distributed systems, scalable APIs, and deployment strategies (on-prem, hybrid, cloud).
- Demonstrated success building and shipping products for enterprise or Fortune 500 customers.
- Computer Science degree from a top-tier university (ideally top 15 CS programs). We are not considering bootcamp-only educational backgrounds for this role.
Preferred
- Backgrounds in companies like Palantir, Databricks, Scale AI, or similar high-caliber engineering environments.
- Previous experience supporting enterprise deployment use cases in regulated or complex infrastructure environments.
- Familiarity with AI/LLM concepts or workflows (while not required, it's a plus).
- Comfortable working full-time, in-person from a San Francisco-based office.
Compensation and Benefits
- Base Salary: $210,000 to $300,000 (commensurate with experience)
- Equity: 2% with flexibility for more based on leadership scope or co-founder potential
- Benefits: Competitive health, dental, and vision coverage; equity refresh opportunities; access to early-stage startup upside; immersive team culture
- Environment: High-velocity, high-impact team with direct exposure to product visionaries and top-tier investors