Founding Engineer Jobs
Founding engineers are the first engineering hires at early-stage startups. They build products from zero, own the full stack, and shape the technical direction of the company.
769 jobs found
| 1. | United States | $200,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | computer vision, sensors, ai | Yesterday |
| 2. | Founding Engineer (Backend / AI Infrastructure) (Employvision Inc.) New York, New York, United States+1 | $150,000 – $210,000/yr | on-site | full-time | senior | python, typescript, react | Yesterday |
| 3. | Founding Engineer ($150k-$250k + Equity) at Toolkit (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | system design, scalability, agent orchestration | Yesterday |
| 4. | Founding Engineer at Forgepoint (Jack & Jill) New York City, New York, United States | on-site | full-time | senior | typescript, node.js, react | Yesterday |
| 5. | San Francisco, California, United States | $180,000 – $220,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | gemini, anthropic, kotlin | 2d ago |
| 6. | Founding Engineer (Full Stack) (Capital City Talent Solutions) San Francisco, California, United States | $200,000 – $250,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | typescript, node.js, backend | 2d ago |
| 7. | Founding Engineer (AI Software Engineer) (Avacend Inc) New York City, New York, United States | hybrid | contract | entry | python, typescript, llm apis | 2d ago |
| 8. | Founding Engineer ($140K-$180K + Equity) at Nero (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $140,000 – $180,000/yr | on-site | full-time | executive | typescript, react, node.js | 4d ago |
| 9. | Founding Engineer at Cascade (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | on-site | full-time | executive | full-stack engineering, AI, data ingestion | 4d ago |
| 10. | London, United Kingdom | £65,000 – £80,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | full-stack development, backend development, frontend development | 4d ago |
| 11. | Founding Engineer (Blockchain/Backend) (ParlayX) Los Angeles, California, United States | $100,000 – $150,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | blockchain, backend, prediction markets | 5d ago |
| 12. | New York City, New York, United States | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | python, typescript, next.js | 5d ago |
| 13. | Founding Engineer (ryw) Houston, Texas, United States | hybrid | full-time | entry | api design, async patterns, data modeling | 5d ago |
| 14. | Founding Engineer (£100-130k + 0.8% Equity) at Spinal (Jack & Jill) London, United Kingdom | £100,000 – £130,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | entry | python, pydantic, postgres | 5d ago |
| 15. | Founding Engineer at Tightrope AI, Inc. (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $160,000 – $250,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | executive | python, react, backend systems | 5d ago |
| 16. | San Francisco, California, United States | $170,000 – $350,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | distributed systems, typescript, kubernetes | 5d ago |
| 17. | Founding Engineer (Competitive + Equity) at Stealth (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $150,000 – $180,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | node.js, python, supabase | 5d ago |
| 18. | San Francisco, California, United States | $225,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | gpu/cuda acceleration, distributed systems, rag/llm pipelines | 5d ago |
| 19. | Founding Engineer: MVP Architect (Equity Partner) (Le Vente, Inc. & The Riché App) United States | remote | full-time | lead | blockchain, saas, go | 6d ago |
| 20. | Founding Engineer (Castari) United States+1 | $120,000 – $200,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | claude agent sdk, developer tooling, clis | 6d ago |
| 21. | United States+1 | $90,000 – $130,000/yr | remote | full-time | lead | typescript, next.js, react | 6d ago |
| 22. | Founding Engineer (Bloom) Switzerland+1 | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | remote | full-time | executive | typescript, swift, kotlin | 6d ago |
| 23. | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India | ₹8,000,000 – ₹10,000,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | python, django, temporal | 6d ago |
| 24. | Founding Engineer (Overdrive Health) New York, New York, United States | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | python, llms, ai agents | 6d ago |
| 25. | Founding Engineer (Multifactor) San Francisco, California, United States | $145,000 – $195,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | oauth, fido2, webauthn | 6d ago |
| 26. | Founding Engineer (AI / Full Stack) (Rovi Health) New York City, New York, United States | $150,000 – $220,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | python, react, typescript | 6d ago |
| 27. | Founding Engineer (Recruiting from Scratch) New York, New York, United States | $170,000 – $185,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | python, django, typescript | 6d ago |
| 28. | Founding Engineer (Storm2) San Francisco, California, United States | $200,000 – $250,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | node.js, typescript, aws | 6d ago |
| 29. | New York, New York, United States | $125,000 – $200,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | typescript, react, node.js | 6d ago |
| 30. | Founding Engineer - AI ($200K+ + Equity) at Muro AI (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $200,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | python, fastapi, celery | 6d ago |
| 31. | Founding Engineer | £100m Funding - No VC Money (Tech Talent Network) London, London, United Kingdom | Up to £150,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | javascript, python, api design | 6d ago |
| 32. | Founding Engineer (AI-Native) (Capsure AI) Los Angeles, California, United States | hybrid | full-time | lead | react, typescript, node.js | 1w ago |
| 33. | Founding Engineer (Talent Forge Australia) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | A$160,000 – A$200,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | react, next.js, typescript | 1w ago |
| 34. | Founding Engineer (Arvo) New York, New York, United States | hybrid | full-time | lead | rust, react, tauri | 1w ago |
| 35. | Founding Engineer (Replicas) San Francisco, California, United States | $150,000 – $250,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | ai, software engineering, product development | 1w ago |
| 36. | Founding Engineer (10x Science) San Francisco, California, United States+1 | $150,000 – $240,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | rust, c++, go | 1w ago |
| 37. | Founding Engineer (OnDeck AI) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | CA$100,000 – CA$200,000/yr | on-site | full-time | entry | engineering generalist, product intuition, building products | 1w ago |
| 38. | Founding Engineer (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States | hybrid | full-time | lead | react, typescript, python | 1w ago |
| 39. | Founding Engineer (Neighborbrite) United States | remote | full-time | lead | generative vision models, llm, next.js | 1w ago |
| 40. | New York, New York, United States | $150,000 – $225,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | entry | backend infrastructure, sre, devops | 1w ago |
| 41. | Founding Engineer (Vye Health) United States | remote | full-time | lead | react, postgresql, aws | 1w ago |
| 42. | Founding Engineer (Bustem.com) New York City, New York, United States | $140,000 – $180,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | next.js, postgres, backend infrastructure | 1w ago |
| 43. | Founding Engineer (Frontend) (Momentic) San Francisco, California, United States | $150,000 – $220,000/yr | on-site | full-time | lead | typescript, react, next.js | 1w ago |
| 44. | Founding Engineer (Albert Bow) California, United States | Up to $300,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | python, distributed systems, llm | 1w ago |
| 45. | Founding Engineer (Mubit) London, United Kingdom | on-site | full-time | lead | 1w ago |
| 46. | Founding Engineer (Arcadia) San Francisco, California, United States | on-site | full-time | lead | react, python, aws | 1w ago |
| 47. | Founding Engineer at Quest AI (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | hybrid | full-time | executive | llms, agents, memory orchestration | 1w ago |
| 48. | Founding Engineer (Elastic Ltd) United States | remote | full-time | lead | solana, rust, typescript | 1w ago |
| 49. | Founding Engineer ($180K-220K + Equity) at Corveris (Jack & Jill) San Francisco, California, United States | $180,000 – $220,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | senior | react, node, python | 1w ago |
| 50. | Los Angeles, California, United States | $188,000 – $273,000/yr | hybrid | full-time | lead | large language models, prompt engineering, automation | 1w ago |