Founding Engineer

About the Role

As Founding Engineer at an early-stage freight technology company, you will work across product and engineering to build AI-powered tools for freight operations. You will combine customer discovery with hands-on development, helping evolve early demos into reliable production products and shaping the technical direction as the company grows.

What You'll Do

• Lead conversations with customers and translate their needs into product features and technical plans.

• Design, build, and deploy full-stack applications, while advancing the product's AI capabilities.

• Move prototypes and demos toward scalable, high-quality production systems.

• Make practical architecture decisions and help shape the product and engineering direction.

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience building and shipping production applications.

• Full-stack experience with Node.js, TypeScript, and React, plus backend development in Python.

• Hands-on experience with LLM design patterns, vector stores, and model fine-tuning.

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