Founding Engineer

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding DevOps Engineer - Blockchain Infrastructure - candidates can be based anywhere but need to overlap at least 4 hours with PST timezone.

We are a native DeFi and data platform and we’re seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has a strong background in managing Web3 nodes/clients, maintaining TypeScript-based backend systems, and implementing robust CI/CD pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain high-availability node infrastructure (ETH and other major protocols)
• Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines for TypeScript-based backend
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for nodes and backend services
• Optimize resource utilization and cost management across cloud platforms
• Ensure security best practices in infrastructure deployment and maintenance
...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Design/Product Engineer - DeFi - candidates can be based anywhere as long as they overlap 4 hours with PST timezone.

We are native DeFi and data platform and we are looking for a Founding Design Engineer to build and own our UI products. The ideal candidate combines strong product design sensibilities with advanced frontend engineering capabilities to create exceptional user experiences.

Key Responsibilities
- Design, architect, and implement our UI products and design system
- Build high-performance, responsive, and animated web applications using Next.js and TypeScript
- Drive product design decisions through user research, metrics, and technical constraints

Requirements

Extensive experience in design and product engineering.

Expert knowledge of React, Next.js, and TypeScript.

Proficiency with Tailwind CSS, Shad CN...

Company Description

The future is now! Pixona is an enterprise-grade virtual recruiting co-pilot, designed to automate, streamline and improve the entire recruiting process. We ingest and rank resumes, completely automate interview scheduling, and transcribe all feedback. In addition, our Voice AI agent can carry out interviews and automatically analyze candidate responses to provide insightful evaluations. Pixona seamlessly integrates with each ATS and automates the recruiting workflow for recruiters and hiring managers so they can focus on what truly matters. As we scale, our small but mighty team is looking for a great front end founding engineer who can help us grow correctly and help make us into the next multi-billion dollar company. Our co-founders have 18+ years at Google between them.

Role Overview:

Join us as a Founding Egineer and help deliver a revolutionary generative AI Agent and Technology...

Overview:

The future is now! Pixona is an enterprise-grade virtual recruiting co-pilot, designed to automate, streamline and improve the entire recruiting process. We ingest and rank resumes, completely automate interview scheduling, and transcribe all feedback. In addition, our Voice AI agent can carry out interviews and automatically analyze candidate responses to provide insightful evaluations. Pixona seamlessly integrates with every ATS and automates the recruiting workflow for recruiters and hiring managers. As we scale, our small but mighty team is looking for a 10x AI/ML engineer who can help us grow correctly and help make us into the next multi-billion dollar company. Our co-founders have 18+ years at Google between them.

Role Description:

In this role you Will Build Both Consumer-facing And Enterprise-grade software. Your key tasks will include designing and testing new generative AI/ML technologies, scaling the...

About Us

We are Sam, and we believe that no woman should go through life's hardest, most complicated events alone. Over 72% of women in the United States feel they do not have an adequate support system. So we decided to build one. We are a women-led start-up, launching in April 2025. Sam is a marketplace that connects clients with professionals, experts, and navigators based on life events. We are driven by the belief that real connection can mean the difference between a good and great day. We believe in always moving toward better.

Why Join Us?

• Impactful Mission: Be part of building a real support system for women, addressing a critical gap in today’s society.
• Shape the Future: As a founding engineer, you’ll have a direct influence on the platform's development and user experience.
• Collaborative Environment: Work closely with a driven and passionate team that values your input and ideas.
• Equity Opportunity: Join at the...

Overview:

The future is now! Pixona is an enterprise-grade virtual recruiting co-pilot, designed to automate, streamline and improve the entire recruiting process. We ingest and rank resumes, completely automate interview scheduling, and transcribe all feedback. In addition, our Voice AI agent can carry out interviews and automatically analyze candidate responses to provide insightful evaluations. Pixona seamlessly integrates with every ATS and automates the recruiting workflow for recruiters and hiring managers. As we scale, our small but mighty team is looking for a 10x software engineer who can help us grow correctly and help make us into the next multi-billion dollar company. Our co-founders have 18+ years at Google between them.

Role Description:

In this role you Will Build Both Consumer-facing And Enterprise-grade software. Your key tasks will include designing and testing new generative AI technologies, scaling the...

Sourced By is an AI-automated, all-in-one tech platform revolutionizing the fashion sourcing industry. We empower businesses to streamline their sourcing processes and drive innovation. With our Minimum Viable Product (MVP) ready to launch, we’re seeking a talented Founding Engineer to help build and shape the future of our platform.

As the Founding Engineer at Sourced By, you will play a critical role in the development of our platform, guiding the technical vision and architecture. You will collaborate closely with the Founder & CEO to transform innovative ideas into scalable solutions. This is a unique opportunity to lay the foundation of our technology stack and significantly impact our company’s trajectory.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and architect the Sourced By platform from the ground up.
• Collaborate with the Founder & CEO to define product requirements and specifications.
• Lead the development...

Rockstar is recruiting for an innovative technology company that is revolutionizing the insurance industry. Our client has developed a cloud-native, customizable, and centralized producer management and compensation system tailored to meet the specific needs of insurance carriers and their distribution partners. Backed by notable investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Liquid 2 Ventures, they are focused on unlocking growth opportunities for their customers by providing the flexibility and insights necessary to manage commissions as a revenue driver.

About the Company

Our client is on a mission to overhaul the insurance industry’s technology and data infrastructure. They believe that existing solutions are outdated, inflexible, and insufficient to meet the needs of innovative insurance carriers and their distribution partners.

Their solution is a customizable, easy-to-use, and centralized producer management and compensation system that is...

About Us:

At AdmitSmart, we believe college admissions is a crucial challenge with significant moral implications. Today, wealthier students are twice as likely to gain admission to top schools compared to their less-affluent peers with similar achievements. We see AI as a tool that can either widen or narrow this gap, and our mission is to ensure it narrows by highlighting every student's unique story and potential, regardless of their background.

We aim to revolutionize the admissions process by providing school counsellors with AI-powered tools that illuminate each student's true story, creating a fairer and more equitable system. Our vision is a future where every student receives personalized, high-quality college guidance regardless of background.

As a founding engineer at AdmitSmart, you'll be integral in building the technology that makes this vision a reality. Your work will directly impact students' lives, helping them access the education they...

About Us:

At AdmitSmart, we believe college admissions is a crucial challenge with significant moral implications. Today, wealthier students are twice as likely to gain admission to top schools compared to their less-affluent peers with similar achievements. We see AI as a tool that can either widen or narrow this gap, and our mission is to ensure it narrows by highlighting every student's unique story and potential, regardless of their background.

We aim to revolutionize the admissions process by providing school counsellors with AI-powered tools that illuminate each student's true story, creating a fairer and more equitable system. Our vision is a future where every student receives personalized, high-quality college guidance regardless of background.

As a founding engineer at AdmitSmart, you'll be integral in building the technology that makes this vision a reality. Your work will directly impact students' lives, helping them access the education they...

About Us:

At AdmitSmart, we believe college admissions is a crucial challenge with significant moral implications. Today, wealthier students are twice as likely to gain admission to top schools compared to their less-affluent peers with similar achievements. We see AI as a tool that can either widen or narrow this gap, and our mission is to ensure it narrows by highlighting every student's unique story and potential, regardless of their background.

We aim to revolutionize the admissions process by providing school counsellors with AI-powered tools that illuminate each student's true story, creating a fairer and more equitable system. Our vision is a future where every student receives personalized, high-quality college guidance regardless of background.

As a founding engineer at AdmitSmart, you'll be integral in building the technology that makes this vision a reality. Your work will directly impact students' lives, helping them access the education they...

At Cargo, we just closed several $Ms in funding and we’re ready to hire our Founding Engineer. If you’re a software engineer with a passion for robotics, we want to talk to you.

About You

Are you a rockstar developer? We’re a team of serial founders who are Stanford / StartX / South Park Commons alumni and are well funded with awesome robotics founders and investors behind us. We’ve got business and hardware covered, and we’re looking for an awesome software lead - someone with the ambition and versatility to join as a first employee at a robotics startup disrupting a massive legacy industry.We have a strong preference for candidates who can work locally with us in the SF Bay to enable tight collaboration and fast iteration.

About Us

Cargo is building the robotic delivery platform of tomorrow. You can think of us as an automated warehouse on wheels.After taking jobs at UPS and FedEx, we...

Rockstar is recruiting for a recent YCombinator (S24) company that recently closed their seed round. This small team is revolutionizing healthcare with LLM-enabled software that helps doctors deliver lifesaving care by securing insurance approvals faster than any other system in existence. With private-equity-owned clinics as customers and rapid growth on the horizon, this startup is already generating impressive revenue and is ready to expand.

Role:

The client is seeking a product engineer to take ownership of entire features across the stack. As the first hire, you will report directly to the CTO and play a key role in unlocking millions in revenue.

Responsibilities:

- Take ownership of full-stack features.

- Work closely with the CTO to shape the direction of the product.

- Contribute directly to the rapid growth of the business.

What They Look For:

- A...

About Us:

At AdmitSmart, we believe college admissions is a crucial challenge with significant moral implications. Today, wealthier students are twice as likely to gain admission to top schools compared to their less-affluent peers with similar achievements. We see AI as a tool that can either widen or narrow this gap, and our mission is to ensure it narrows by highlighting every student's unique story and potential, regardless of their background.

We aim to revolutionize the admissions process by providing school counsellors with AI-powered tools that illuminate each student's true story, creating a fairer and more equitable system. Our vision is a future where every student receives personalized, high-quality college guidance regardless of background.

As a founding engineer at AdmitSmart, you'll be integral in building the technology that makes this vision a reality. Your work will directly impact students' lives, helping them access the education they...

About Us:

At AdmitSmart, we believe college admissions is a crucial challenge with significant moral implications. Today, wealthier students are twice as likely to gain admission to top schools compared to their less-affluent peers with similar achievements. We see AI as a tool that can either widen or narrow this gap, and our mission is to ensure it narrows by highlighting every student's unique story and potential, regardless of their background.

We aim to revolutionize the admissions process by providing school counsellors with AI-powered tools that illuminate each student's true story, creating a fairer and more equitable system. Our vision is a future where every student receives personalized, high-quality college guidance regardless of background.

As a founding engineer at AdmitSmart, you'll be integral in building the technology that makes this vision a reality. Your work will directly impact students' lives, helping them access the education they...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Backend Engineer - Web3 - this is a hybrid role, candidates need to be based in San Francisco or willing to relocate.

To secure the next generation of the web

For web3 to get into the hands of mainstream users, there cannot be exploits that steal millions of dollars in a single atomic transaction. The current exploit detection and response solutions are not sufficient to keep billions of dollars secure. We believe a combination of research-based and data-driven detection solutions and a novel response solution will leapfrog the industry forward in the battle against exploiters.

Role

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain our core customer-facing platform
• Work directly with the founding team and customers to prioritize and ship new product features
• Build and shape our infrastructure including SDLC, monitoring,...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Smart Contract Engineer - candidates need to be based in San Francisco and work in office 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect the first version of our security protocol
• Build and secure production smart contracts powering customers and user transactions on the protocol
• Use industry best practices for smart contract mechanics, testing, and maintenance.
• Collaborate with the founding team to integrate on-chain stack with the rest of our stack
• Help shape the culture of the founding engineering team

Requirements

3+ years of experience writing smart contracts for reputable protocols

Experience in Solidity and deep understanding of modern web3 technologies

Security oriented mindset

Able to work in SF 3 days a week

Job Title: Founding Product Engineer

Overview

Are you passionate about solving real-world problems and shaping the direction of a product from the ground up? As our Founding Product Engineer, you will have end-to-end ownership of our entire product. You will drive every aspect of product development, from user interviews to prototype development, ensuring a seamless deployment process. This role is ideal for someone who has been or aspires to be a founder of a software product company.

Responsibilities

• User Interviews: Conduct user interviews, ask insightful questions, and shadow users to gather critical feedback.
• Prototype Development: Implement rough prototypes for potential product ideas and iterations, focusing on rapid development and iteration.
• Feedback Integration: Collect and analyze feedback from both internal and external users to inform product decisions.
• ...

Job Title: Founding Product Engineer

Overview

Are you passionate about solving real-world problems and shaping the direction of a product from the ground up? As our Founding Product Engineer, you will have end-to-end ownership of our entire product. You will drive every aspect of product development, from user interviews to prototype development, ensuring a seamless deployment process. This role is ideal for someone who has been or aspires to be a founder of a software product company.

Responsibilities

• User Interviews: Conduct user interviews, ask insightful questions, and shadow users to gather critical feedback.
• Prototype Development: Implement rough prototypes for potential product ideas and iterations, focusing on rapid development and iteration.
• Feedback Integration: Collect and analyze feedback from both internal and external users to inform product decisions.
• ...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Design Engineer - Crypto, hybrid role in San Francisco. Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates.

We’re building the personal bank on Ethereum. Your own bank, on Ethereum. Store money using secure hardware on your phone. Yours alone, like cash.

Ethereum has seen recent fundamental improvements, and it’s just now becoming possible to ship a great product. Payments is just the start.

Requirements

Based in SF or willing to relocate

Experience designing & shipping great UX.

Strong Portfolio showing things you’ve built.

Compensation & Package

Basic could range from 150-250K, total comp from could include equity valued at 50-100% of the candidates salary.

TalenTailors is looking for a talented and driven Founding Engineer to join our customers` team.

Responsibilities:

• Own product features: Transform customer requirements into high-quality code
• Iterate on publication-grade ML: Brainstorm new ML methods to significantly enhance agent behavior
• Wear many hats: Adapt to diverse tasks involving frontend, backend, infrastructure, and ML
• Move mountains: Go the extra mile to drive the company's progress

Requirements

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a relevant field
• Proven engineering experience of at least 4 years within a startup environment
• Proficiency in Python and backend technologies such as FastAPI, Flask, and Django
• Proficient in both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis) database technologies
• Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker,...

Compensation: Up to $250,000 annually with a competitive founding equity package and comprehensive benefits

About Us: Join us as a pivotal Lead Machine Learning Engineer and become a cornerstone of our innovative team. In this foundational role, you will be instrumental in sculpting our product's future and steering the company's strategic direction. This is a unique opportunity to imprint your mark on our technological journey and grow with us.

Your Role:

• Architect and refine our machine learning systems, taking responsibility from conceptualization to deployment, ensuring seamless integration and optimal functioning within our product environment.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and refine algorithms that elevate code generation and comprehension, enhancing the developer experience.
• Champion the design, testing, and deployment of new product functionalities and...

Counsel’s mission is to provide patients 24/7 access to the world’s highest quality medical advice. Today, patients seek medical advice from unreliable online sources, chatbots, phone-based medical advice lines, or by messaging their primary care physician, but we believe these solutions are outdated and often ineffective.

At Counsel, we are building an AI-powered medical service that enables our clinicians to provide superhuman medical advice that is near-instant, highly personalized and always available. We believe in a future in which every person has a personalized, AI-enabled doctor always in their pocket.

Our team is comprised of leading physicians, engineers, and researchers who have spent time at Harvard Medical School, UCSF, Stanford Medicine, MIT Media Lab, NVIDIA, and leading healthcare technology companies. We’re backed by top-tier institutional investors including Floodgate Fund and Asymmetric Capital Partners, along with the founders of several healthcare...

We are looking for a product-driven full-stack founding engineering lead. The heart of Aura is engineering; the heart of our engineering team is our founding engineers, who set the tone and pace of engineering at Aura. You will work directly on the technology stack that enables our customers to discover companies and roles. Your work will have a direct impact on revenue, customer engagement, and the overall customer experience.

Our culture is one of low ego, obsession, curiosity, and collaboration. We value hard work and getting things done quickly. If this sounds like a good fit for you, apply now!

What you'll do

• Influence and execute the overall vision of Aura’s offerings by collaborating with Product & Design to create products that help customers discover companies.
• Translate the needs of our customers by deeply understanding their needs and innovating our product features and services to exceed their expectations,...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Product Engineer - Crypto - candidates need to be based in SF or willing to relocate.

We’re building Daimo, the personal bank on Ethereum.

Ethereum has seen recent fundamental improvements, and it’s just now becoming possible to ship a great product. Payments is just the start.

Requirements

Based in SF or willing to relocate

Experience shipping production software.

Strong React / Typescript

Wagmi / viem / ethereum frontend development experience

Nice to have

• React Native / expo
• Low latency web app development

Benefits

We’re a four-person team, and we’re shipping fast. Since we started in summer 2023:

• Our app
• Passkey verifier for super easy-to-use self custody
• ...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Founding Infrastructure Engineer - Crypto - candidates need to be based in SF or willing to relocate.

We’re building Daimo, the personal bank on Ethereum.

Ethereum has seen recent fundamental improvements, and it’s just now becoming possible to ship a great product. Payments is just the start.

Requirements

Based in SF or willing to relocate (they will assist)

Experience shipping production software.

Experience with high performance / high uptime services or deep evm experience

Nice to have

• Experience with high performance / high uptime services
• Experience with any of - large databases / dataflows, Ethereum indexing, Solidity, wallet infrastructure
• Ethereum experience
• You’ve been on PagerDuty
...

Rescale is a food-tech startup tackling the technologically antiquated world of food & beverage manufacturing. We are building a mix of a marketplace + turbo-tax style functionality to bring automation and scalability to the industry. With great traction and paying customers, we just closed a $2M seed round. This role will be our first engineer hire and will report directly to and work closely with our CTO.

As part of an early-stage company, you’ll have real and tangible impact on the business and our users. Along with our CTO, you will write code and ship product to a growing number of paying customers. We prioritize a developer-friendly environment by being fully remote (within US), having low infrastructure/configuration overhead, autonomy in your work, and getting rid of webpack. Our product strategy is user-focused; we strive to always provide clarity around “what did we learn” + “how that changes our thinking”. We feel the added transparency and sense of...

InnerPlant is the place for curious people who want to create innovative traits that harness plant physiology and unlock data at scale to boost global agricultural yields and sustainability. We’re backed by industry giant John Deere and other veteran venture capitalists and are poised for growth as we develop crops that can tell us what they need by turning plants into living sensors.

If you’re a dreamer and an optimist, someone who believes they can change the world and want to take action to leave a positive lasting impact - this is the opportunity for you.

Job Description

Our company has made great strides in our work to create plants that generate an optical signal when stressed and detect that signal from various imaging platforms. We are now expanding our work to make that signal actionable for farmers. The successful candidate for this position will help design, build and maintain the digital infrastructure necessary to relay our...

Who We Are

Alongside is building the future of index products: on-chain, low-fee protocols that benefit from interoperability with DeFi.

Why Us

At Alongside, we pride ourselves on our willingness to question our assumptions, receive/act on feedback, think rigorously about problems and their solutions, and act with conviction under uncertainty.

Role and Responsibilities

Technical:

• Continual Learning of Tooling and Best Practices – Since smart contract engineering is a relatively new programming paradigm, the tooling and best practices are quickly evolving as the industry discovers better patterns, experiences hacks in common contracts, etc. You have your methods to keep up to date with these developments and integrate them into your work.
• Cross-domain Comfort – You must be comfortable reasoning about the interplay between mission-critical smart contracts,...

Career Renew is recruiting for one of its clients a Senior Product Engineer - Hybrid position in San Francisco. Base compensation between 150-300 K USD.

We are an early-stage startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of other sizes and stages.

• We're a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. Currently, our team consists solely of our 2 co-founders, Sina and Joe. There's a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity.
• We prioritize having a strong, in-person culture in San Francisco for our founding team. We are open to team members who operate remotely on a case-by-case basis.
• We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but you’ll have to be diligent and hold yourself accountable regarding the boundaries for your work day. Depending on your location, you may need to be flexible to accommodate the schedules of other team members and...