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Founding Engineer

💰 $150,000 - $220,000 🌍 New York, New York 📅 11/22/2025

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Job Description

Do you love social media but hate doomscrolling? Do you prefer AI which helps
people pursue their passions instead of fueling their distraction? Do you want
to help regular people make money doing what they love, instead of replacing
their jobs with AI?

**Company Description**

We're a VC-funded seed startup in stealth mode, building a unique AI product
which helps social media creators of all sizes monetize as though they had the
talent team of a 1M+ creator. Our founding team is ex-Google and are deep
experts in the space where we're building. We have an excited cohort of early
adopters and are now building to launch and scale.

**Role Description**

We're assembling an all-star team drawing from all backgrounds - our founders
are from big tech but we believe talent is everywhere. Right now our focus is
on software engineers - all levels welcome, particularly graduate level GenAI-
natives and experienced builders who ask the right questions.

**Qualifications**

* You love to build, solve, and optimize- it's more about the purpose than the process
* You have a favorite programming language but are at peace with Python and Typescript for your day job
* You have a strong foundation in Computer Science, whether from a degree or hard-won experience
* You're deeply interested, and perhaps expert in one or more of: (1) Full-stack development: Vue.js, TypeScript, or similar; (2) AI / ML applications: LLMs, prompt-tuning, agentic workflows; (3) Search & recommendation systems: ranking, embeddings, optimization; (4) Distributed systems & infrastructure: efficient deployment, scaling, cost optimization
* You're a driven, curious, funny, unique human, who wants to build something meaningful with people who care just as much as you do.