Founding Engineer

About the role

ABOUT THE ROLE

Hiring a full-stack/founding engineers to join our team and focused on product engineering and shipping new features

THINGS YOU'LL BE WORKING ON

Architecting and implementing full-stack product features in Typescript/React/Node is the core of what you’ll be doing. Real examples include —

- Build out agentic workflows that design, build, and optimize online shops

- Build out product & payments processing infrastructure

- Launch analytics infra on Clickhouse/Kafka that support billions events/month

- Own our user onboarding flow from end-to-end

LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO

- Can be in office 4-5 days/week in San Francisco

- Is proficient in Typescript/React/Node

- Uses Cursor/Claude Code to accelerate their work

- Has built products 0 -> 1 with real users and revenue

- Is OK operating independently without product/design

- Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo

- Has a product and customer-focused mindset

- Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how products should be built, that’s good

- Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we’re the ones that have to read it and understand it)

- Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points

BONUS POINTS IF YOU

- Have a CS degree or formal computer science/STEM backend

- Have started a company before

- Enjoy attending hackathons

- Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously

- Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode

- Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).