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Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$140K - $200K/yr

Build the core product surfaces: employee-facing guidance UX and manager dashboard * Work across ... founding engineer. Product, engineering, and customer work all run through the same room. We're ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$200K - $250K/yr

The gap no one has filled Every complex system in America has a profession whose job it is to be ... You have experience designing sound systems and building high-quality product experiences with ...

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$152K/yr

They are seeking a Founding Engineer who will ship end-to-end products and own features from idea ... Ship again. Broken software used by a million people beats perfect software used by no one.

Founding Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$120K - $250K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a YC-backed enterprise AI startup building an ... Hands-on experience designing and deploying AI-driven systems, including agent architectures ...

Founding Engineer

$132K/yr

They are seeking a Founding Engineer to own and ship new features, integrate with partners, and ... Required : • Experienced with building systems for scale. • Opinionated about best practices ...

Unbound is a company focused on building exceptional products and enhancing customer experience, and they are seeking a Founding Engineer to engage in hands-on coding and develop features across the ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$156K - $182K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, AI-native financial ... experience. * US citizenship required; no visa sponsorship available. Compensation & Benefits ...

... seeking a Founding Engineer to join their team. The role requires a strong focus on developing ... Required : • Experience with Next.js web applications • Experience with React Native ...

... and they are seeking a Founding Engineer to join their team. The role involves designing ... improve user experience and implementing new features for scalability and security.

Founding Engineer

Palo Alto, CA

$94K - $127K/yr

Role Description As a Founding Engineer, you'll help shape both our product and our company. You'll ... Experience building and shipping products in a startup or fast-paced environment * Excitement about ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · Remote

$156K - $182K/yr

About the Role This is a founding engineering role at a Y Combinator-backed, AI-native financial ... experience. * US citizenship required; no visa sponsorship available. Compensation & Benefits ...

Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

Our founding team are repeat founders and alums of Y Combinator, Amazon, and Venture for America ... Strong full-stack web development experience * Relish the opportunity to be the sole engineer and ...

Founding Engineer

Manhattan, NY · On-site

$142K/yr

Solva is a startup looking for a Founding Engineer to be an integral part of their team. In this ... Required : • Strong backend and infrastructure experience (cloud, infra-as-code, scaling systems ...

As a Founding Engineer, you will collaborate with the founders to shape the product architecture ... user experience and design • Strong communication and collaboration skills • Experience ...

... experience, discoverability, and performance. Lightsage is behind DevToolArena.com, a public ... Role Description As a Founding Engineer at Lightsage, you will design, build, and scale core ...

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Founding Engineer

New York, NY · On-site

$150K - $200K/yr

Has experience at top start ups or big tech companies companies; or is an ex-founder/founding engineer; or someone who obsesses over side projects (deployed and live, ideally). * Comfortable with ...

tl;dr: Interface is looking for generalist founding engineers (ml, data, full-stack) who are ... their experience / problems / needs * architect systems used daily by thousands of folks at $B ...

... with no key sprawl to manage. Lava also gives developers and businesses a way to get paid for the ... Deep engineering experience, ideally full stack with a strong backend focus. * Strong grasp of ...

Cardinal is the AI platform for precision outbound, and they are seeking a Founding Engineer to ... Required : • 1-6 years of experience building production systems and user-facing features. • ...

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Founding Engineer

Pear

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$140K - $200K/yr

Full-time

Re-posted 6 days ago


Job description

The Opportunity
Companies have spent billions on AI tools and tokens. Almost none of them can prove it's working. 95% of organizations report zero measurable return from their AI investments. Not because the tools are bad, but because nobody redesigned the workflows, coached the teams, or measured what actually changed.
Modo is the AI success layer for the enterprise. We sit inside the flow of work, capture how teams actually use AI, guide them in the moment, and give leaders the ROI analytics to understand which AI tools and workflows are actually creating value.
Today, Modo helps companies drive AI adoption and prove ROI inside real workflows. As we capture more workflow context, Modo becomes the layer understanding how work actually gets done across teams, tools, and AI, which allows companies to build proprietary custom agents grounded in their own workflows.
We are a Seed stage startup, raised from One Way Ventures, Pear VC, Peterson Ventures, JFF Ventures, and a strong group of institutional investors and strategic operators. Now we need to build fast enough to match customer demand.
The Role
This is not a typical engineering role. You'll be our founding engineer, with an outsized role in how the product, company, and engineering culture evolve.
You'll write code, but you'll also:
  • Talk to customers and join pilot calls
  • Turn feedback into product changes the same week
  • Influence the roadmap directly
  • Help close deals by building what matters fast
  • Own features end-to-end, from prototype to production

In your first 90 days, you'll:
  • Ship production code to real pilot customers in your first weeks
  • Build the core product surfaces: employee-facing guidance UX and manager dashboard
  • Work across the stack (TypeScript, React, Next.js, Postgres, Electron/Tauri)
  • Wire up LLM features that actually work in production, not just in a demo
  • Set up the telemetry and eval systems that make our insights credible

In 6 months, you'll:
  • Own large product surface areas end-to-end
  • Help convert pilots into paying contracts with your product work
  • Drive the reliability and quality bar that enterprise buyers expect
  • Start shaping engineering culture and hiring as we grow the team

In 12 months, you'll:
  • Architect key parts of the system
  • Be known by name to our biggest customers
  • Opportunity to lead engineering as we scale past our seed round

Competitive salary, meaningful early equity, and the chance to grow into an engineering leadership role as we scale.
Who We Want
  • Shipping full-stack production-ready products in fast-moving environments
  • Strong with TypeScript, React, Next.js, backend APIs, and Postgres
  • Comfortable building across web and desktop (Electron, Tauri, or similar)
  • Has built LLM-powered features in production, not just prototyped with them
  • Production habits: CI/CD, testing, observability, pragmatic system design
  • Native with AI coding agents (Claude Code/Codex)
  • Obsessive about customer needs, not just abstract "users"
  • Comfortable debugging, writing tests, talking to customers, and jumping on a pilot call

Bonus: Experience with building browser-based automation tools or developer/enterprise tools.
The Team
You'll join Johnny Chang (Stanford top AI agent research, taught most Stanford AI flagship courses with professors like Andrew Ng) and Angelina You (Meta data science, Stanford MS Eng, product growth at CircleCI) as the founding engineer. Product, engineering, and customer work all run through the same room.
We're backed by One Way Ventures, Pear VC, Peterson Ventures, JFF Ventures, and many more institutional funds and strategic angels.
Why Modo
  • Founding team member. Shape culture, product, and technology from the ground up.
  • Real ownership. Your code ships to enterprise customers from week one.
  • Leadership trajectory. Designed to grow into a leading engineering role.
  • In-person around SF. We believe great teams build faster together.
  • Competitive pay + early equity. Rewarded for the outsized impact you'll have.

How to Apply
Email johnny@joinmodo.com with:
  • Your GitHub
  • Your Resume
  • 2 to 3 links to things you've shipped (projects, products, demos, write-ups)
  • A short note on the most impressive thing you've built