Requirements

2+ years experience
You crave ownership
You're okay with ambiguity: comfortable with the lack of structure and wearing multiple hats
You're multidisciplinary
You operate at light speed

Responsibilities

Product: as a founding engineer, you’ll have significant amount of ownership over the product direction. You should expect to spend time talking to customers, teasing out use cases, and making prioritisation decisions regarding both the short- and long-term roadmap.
Engineering: set the foundations for the engineering in the company. This translates into improving or building core architecture choices, processes, and systems. You’ll make key architectural decisions that will be pillars of the company for years to come. At the same time, you’ll have to make serious trade-offs to balance speed of execution with quality. You’ll decide what technical debt is worth taking on, what components should be built versus bought, and when it’s worth spending an extra week to engineer a solid foundation. As a founding engineer, you’ll also be the de-facto devops engineer. You may be responsible for setting up project management processes, troubleshooting performance and reliability issues, and instrumenting the CI/CD pipeline.
Support: you should also expect to spend a fair amount of time in the trenches supporting customers. You’ll probably find yourself engaging with customers to answer product questions, triage bugs, or gather feedback.
People: you’ll also be exposed to the people operations side of things – both when it comes to recruiting as well as defining the culture of the company. As a founding engineer, you will spend a ton of time sourcing, interviewing, and closing early team members.
Business: you’ll gain exposure to all other aspects of the business – from fundraising, to sales, and beyond. Although you probably won’t be closing deals or making pitch decks, you will certainly be expected to sell your product and pitch the company’s vision. As a founding engineer, your job is to support the CEO in doing whatever it takes to achieve the vision for them company. A good founding engineer will “always be closing” – whether that’s reaching out to former colleagues, classmates, or friends to get your foot in the door of potential customers or investors.
A founding engineer will have the opportunity to help build and lead a team around themselves and make high-level technical/architectural decisions on a complex product.

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