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Founding Backend Engineer Jobs in Edison, NJ (NOW HIRING)

The Role As our founding infra/backend engineer, you'll architect the backbone of Spur's core platform-define, build, and scale mission-critical infra powering our web agents. We own our entire stack ...

Our client is looking for a Founding Systems Engineer to help refine the foundations of their platform and build the next generation of agent-first data infrastructure. You will join at a stage where ...

Have extensive backend experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems (6y ... Denis Charrier- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then ...

About the role We're looking for a top‑tier Backend Engineer to join our tech team and work ... Denis Charrier- Founding Engineer at Niland, an audio search company (acquired by Spotify), then ...

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

A Backend Engineer with experience in Fintech or marketplaces who will be at the forefront of our ... The desire to be mentored by a unicorn founding CTO and engineers with experience at top notch ...

Software Engineer, Backend

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

As a backend engineer, you'll work directly on our AI orchestration systems to enable reliable ... founding team and early engineers to help shape the future of the company. What you'll do * Own ...

As a backend engineer, you'll work directly on our AI orchestration systems to enable reliable ... founding team and early engineers to help shape the future of the company. What you'll do * Own ...

Software Engineer, Backend

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

As a backend engineer, you'll work directly on our AI orchestration systems to enable reliable ... founding team and early engineers to help shape the future of the company. What you'll do * Own ...

This is a founding-level role with a path to fully owning AI and a team. We care more about how ... You'll likely lean backend, but if you want to reach into the mobile app and go full-stack, that is ...

Backend Software Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $280K/yr

Our founding engineers led Foundry's core systems - Ontology, Fusion, Workshop, FoundryML, created ... The Role What You'll Own You'll build the core backend systems that power Kepler's AI research ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to become the company's first technical hire and build the ... You will own the architecture, stack, and technical standards across web, mobile, backend, cloud ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $300K/yr

We are hiring a Founding Engineer to become the company's first technical hire and build the ... Build the MVP end to end across web, mobile, backend, data, and infrastructure * Integrate banking ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$125K - $175K/yr

This is a founding engineering role focused on backend and infrastructure, and it carries three of ... the company's hardest deliverables. * Stand up the production systems. Build the scalable systems ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$137K - $190K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an a16z-backed AI startup building go-to ... Build and maintain core product infrastructure - APIs, backend systems, and production-ready AI ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · Remote

$137K - $190K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at an a16z-backed AI startup building go-to ... Build and maintain core product infrastructure -- APIs, backend systems, and production-ready AI ...

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As of Sep 6, 2026, the average yearly pay for founding backend engineer in Edison, NJ is $152,867.00, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $128,400.00 and $178,100.00 per year, depending on experience, location, and employer.

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Founding Engineer Infra/Backend

Pear

New York, NY • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, PTO

Re-posted 18 days ago


Key responsibilities

  • Build and scale the core infrastructure to run and launch thousands of browser and web agents daily.

  • Design, implement, and maintain clusters, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices.

  • Work directly with the founders to solve infrastructure problems with real customer impact and optimize the stack.


Job description

Overview: Spur is every company's AI QA Engineer.
New York City
Spur builds fundamental technology for the future of QA: autonomous browser agents that think, explore, validate, and self-heal like real users. We're not another test tool - we're reimagining how digital teams ship with confidence.
The market has responded loudly. Top brands (Alo Yoga, Living Spaces, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, Abercrombie & Fitch, and more) are actively pulling us in. Inbound demand is exploding. Sales cycles are fast. And the product actually delivers - teams go live in days, not months.
We're a small, elite team of builders from DeepMind, Figma, ex-founders and customers - shipping at a pace that big companies can't touch.
Our Mission: We want to help our customers deliver the best digital experiences
Read our Manifesto: https://www.spurtest.com/founders-letter
The Role
As our founding infra/backend engineer, you'll architect the backbone of Spur's core platform-define, build, and scale mission-critical infra powering our web agents.
We own our entire stack end-to-end-you'll orchestrate fleets of browsers and web agents in the cloud and optimize them at massive scale. You'll work directly with the founders, solving frontier infra problems with real customer impact, and set the gold standard across our stack, from low-level infra to the UX delivered by our agents.
What you'll do
  • Build and scale our core infra to run and launch thousands of browser and web agents every day.
  • Design, implement and maintain our clusters, CI/CD, observability, and CI/CD practices
  • Rapidly iterate with product, engineering, and founders

Bonus Points
  • Experience with distributed task queues, performance/scalability optimization
  • Have worked driving impact at smaller teams and scaling infrastructure 0-1

You'll Thrive Here If You
  • Have 5+ years designing, shipping, and operating at-scale infra
  • Have deep expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, Terraform
  • Understand how infrastructure decisions directly impact product performance and customer experience
  • Have high autonomy, and are able to drive projects on your own.
  • Are ambitious and driven, and care a lot about doing great work with great people

This is an in person role at our office in NYC. We're an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.
Benefits at Spur
  • Daily lunch, snacks, and more are available everyday in the office (you help choose)!
  • High quality medical, dental, and vision coverage options, flexible depending on your needs.
  • Unlimited PTO (We believe that recharging is essential to being the best that you can be.)
  • Spur Swag

Our office in New York City!
Spur is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.