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Founding Engineer

Dex · San Francisco Bay Area · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineering$250k/yrFull-time

San Francisco — on-site

About the role

San Francisco has no shortage of startups calling every hire a founding engineer. The seats worth taking are rarer: real ownership, founders you'd back, and a company early enough that your fingerprints end up on everything. You'd be among the first engineers in the building — owning whole domains from architecture to ship, working in the room with the founders, and setting the standards everyone hired after you inherits. Early-stage pace, with backing serious enough to build properly.

Responsibilities

  • Building the product from the ground up with the founders
  • Owning entire domains end-to-end, architecture through to ship
  • Setting the engineering culture and standards from day one
  • Wearing whatever hat the week requires, and shaping what gets built

Qualifications

  • Strong generalist engineering and a builder's instinct
  • Comfort with ambiguity and an early-stage pace
  • The appetite for the whole problem, not a slice of it
  • Prior founding or early-startup experience — a bonus, not a requirement

Pay

Total compensation up to $250,000+ plus meaningful equity.

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