Member of Technical Staff

About the role

WarpBuild provides compute infrastructure and tools for enabling AI-powered teams to work efficiently.

We are a small team working on multiple products: WarpBuild CI (blazing fast github actions runners), and Helios (agentic harness for your company's knowledge).

As a part of the early team, you’ll play a role in everything we do.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

- You are an engineer with first-principles thinking and passionate about product and user experience. Customers are at the heart of everything you do.

- You have a strong entrepreneurial mindset. You might have been a founder previously, have built an impressive side project or led on a project in our day job.

WHAT WE OFFER

- High equity and compensation.

- High impact role as a founding member of a high growth, profitable startup.

- A very wide and interesting set of problems to work on.

Bonus: write a poem you wrote and we’ll place you in the fast track queue for interviews.

ABOUT THE INTERVIEW

The process is super quick and consists of 4 rounds. You'll be using your own computer, and using the language/environment with which you are most comfortable. You are encouraged to use AI tools and IDEs for the exercises. You'll be doing a screen share with video during the call. A local env for development is preferred because some exercises might need inter communicating services.

The interview process is a deeper dive into technical abilities, product thinking and overall fit. For the “fit” portion, we are again looking for ownership and autonomy, but we also dig deeper into communication. This is evaluated throughout the process -- in how you communicate your approach, solutions and overall thinking.

Each interview is up to 1 hour long, with 50 minutes allocated for the technical portion, and 10 minutes for Q&A.

1. Building an app - backend focus (60 min): This is a real-world type simulation take an app description to a working prototype.

2. Building an app - frontend focus (60 min): This simulates a real-world day-to-day experience where you will take an app description to a working prototype. The emphasis here is on finesse and quality.

3. Design and Architecture (60 min): This is a brainstorming session where we discuss solutions to a real-world scenario.

4. Product thinking and team fit (60 min): This is a discussion about how you would build a feature (typically one we've already had to build) and your decision making. We will also explore behavioral aspects and cover your past experiences, interest in startups and how you operate in smaller teams.

Each round is a knockout. An offer is rolled out in person over a final 30 minute conversation.