Founding Engineer
Fabrion · San Francisco Bay Area
About this role
## Founding Engineer (Full Stack) **Location:** San Francisco Bay Area **Type:** Full-Time **Compensation:** Competitive salary + meaningful equity (founding tier) **Backed by:** 8VC --- ### About the Role We’re hiring a **Founding Full Stack Engineer** to help architect and build our platform from day one. This is a **high-autonomy, high-leverage** role with ownership across core architecture and the opportunity to grow into a leadership position with significant equity upside. You’ll work on infrastructure combining **large-scale data systems** with **AI-native agents**, writing production code across **backend and frontend**, defining component interfaces, shaping **devops/data infrastructure**, and turning abstract ideas into working systems. --- ### Responsibilities - Architect and build **scalable APIs**, backend services, and web application components - Contribute across the stack: **data pipelines, agents, web UIs, deployment systems** - Design and implement **internal tooling**, testing frameworks, and **CI/CD pipelines** - Collaborate with **product and design** to prototype and ship features quickly - Help define engineering processes, contribute to documentation, and grow the early team --- ### Our Stack (examples) - **Languages:** TypeScript (Node.js), Python (FastAPI) - **Frontend:** React, Next.js, Tailwind, shadcn/ui - **Backend/Data:** Postgres, DuckDB, GraphQL (Hasura), Kafka - **Cloud/Infra:** AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Kubernetes (basic) - **AI/Agents:** LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Anthropic, LLaMA, Pinecone, Qdrant - **Governance/Observability:** Keycloak, Open Policy Agent (OPA), OpenTelemetry, Slack integrations - **Visualization:** Vega, Flourish, React ReChart - **Connectors:** ERP, PLM, Excel, Email, Web APIs *Note: Learning and adapting quickly matters more than knowing every tool today.* --- ### What We’re Looking For **Experience** - 5+ years as a full stack or backend engineer - Experience owning and delivering production systems end-to-end - Strong familiarity with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js) - Comfort building APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, and/or deployment workflows at scale - Comfortable in early-stage startups or autonomous roles (founding/founding-engineer experience is a plus) **Mindset** - Comfortable with ambiguity; eager to prototype and iterate - Strong sense of ownership; prefers building over waiting for tickets - Thinks deeply about architecture, performance, and tradeoffs - Clear communicator and pragmatic team player - Values equity and impact over prestige/hierarchy **Bonus** - Open-source or internal tooling contributions with real impact - Interest in data systems, agent workflows, or LLM orchestration --- ### Why Join - **True ownership** and early influence on product + technical direction - **Early equity** with meaningful upside - Mission-driven team solving complex **data + AI** problems with real-world impact - Engineering culture focused on **velocity, clarity, and long-term thinking** - Opportunity to ramp across AI, data infra, agents, and enterprise-scale platforms - Early access to cutting-edge AI workflows and deployment patterns --- If you want to build systems that **learn, act, and evolve**—with the autonomy to shape the stack and the team—we’d love to hear from you.
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