Founding Engineer
Cofia | New York, New York, United States | 1mo ago
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Original posting (closed) below
$180,000 – $250,000/yr| full-time | on-site | lead | 1+ years | visa sponsorship
skills: full stack, production software, distributed systems, data pipelines, streaming events, llm agents, distributed inference, evaluation pipelines, developer tools, automation platforms, client-side engineering, on-device engineering
As our founding engineer, you'll own significant parts of the product alongside the founders. You'll work across the stack — event capture, the workflow inference and generation pipeline, integrations, and user-facing surfaces. You'll work directly with users and help shape the technical direction of the company.
What you'll work on
- macOS and Windows desktop clients
- Backend services and data pipelines for high-volume event data
- LLM pipelines that turn raw signals into workflows, and the evals behind them
- Integrations across the apps our users already work in
- Infrastructure and reliability
- Direct work with our earliest customers
Requirements
- 1+ years of experience building production software
- Full stack experience across multiple frameworks
- Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or streaming events
- Product obsessed and high ownership mentality
Nice to haves
- Experience with LLM agents, distributed inference, or evaluation pipelines
- Background in developer tools, automation platforms, or integration-heavy products
- Client-side or on-device engineering experience
- Early-stage startup experience
What we offer
- Significant equity
- Competitive compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- NYC office, in-person
Our Founding Team
Moses Wayne. Former Engineering Director at Duolingo, where he led Monetization to over $1B in annual revenue. CS and Economics at Duke.
Paola Martínez. Former Product Lead for Retention at Brilliant.org, where she 3x'd mobile DAU. Stanford CS undergrad and MS&E Master's. Mayfield Fellow and former Schmidt Futures Impact Fellow.
Benefits
significant equity · competitive compensation · health coverage · dental coverage · vision coverage
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