Jobs · Engineering · Texas

Founding Engineer

dynama · Austin, TX · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineering$140k–$180k/yrFull-time

Dynama is an AI‑native broker for consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands. We prospect, qualify, and land brands’ products on new retailers’ shelves through a technology‑driven approach so lean CPG teams grow faster and spend less.

About the role

We’re hiring a Founding Software Engineer. This is a high‑ownership role: you’ll work directly with the founders to bring the product to life and scale it for customers.

Responsibilities

  • Own entire systems end to end: scoping, building, testing, deploying, and operating them in production.
  • Design and ship agent‑driven workflows that surface insights and draft real actions across new account prospecting, pricing, trade promotion, retailer coordination, etc.
  • Help define the roadmap by deeply understanding what customers actually need.
  • Write clear, scalable, and performant code across the full stack while maintaining excellent test coverage.

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience as a full‑stack developer who has built and shipped complex products end to end, and can hit the ground running.
  • High‑energy, opinionated, and fun to work with.
  • Strong product taste and judgment about what to build and what to skip.
  • Operate well with little explicit direction and figure out answers to ambiguous, complex problems independently.
  • Prioritize outcomes over perfection.
  • Align with core values of integrity and excellence.

Skills

  • Full‑stack application development and scalable system design.
  • Modern frontend JavaScript frameworks, Python or similar languages, and Linux command‑line tools.
  • Relational databases, ORMs, database architecture and modeling.
  • Data modeling, ETL, and normalizing messy real‑world data into clean schemas.
  • API design and integrations with third‑party systems (ERPs, commerce platforms, retailer tools).
  • Building and debugging non‑deterministic systems — LLM and agent workflows, with attention to observability, evaluation, and reliability.

Why dynama

You are one of the first engineering hires on a new model: an AI‑native broker where agents do the data work, which allows our team to do more effective and efficient selling. You get to be a part of revolutionizing a $20B+ CPG brokerage and outsourced sales market.

Compensation

  • Base salary: $140,000‑$180,000.
  • Equity package.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision.
  • PTO, wellness, commute.
  • Lunch/dinner.

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