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.