Founding Engineer (AI-Native)

career • San Francisco, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a hands-on, jump-into-anything role on a small, talented team. You'll help build the AI-powered evidence layer for commerce, making Vidably self-serve and reliable across real Shopify storefronts. Candidates must currently be based in the Bay Area. Relocation will not be an option for this role.

Requirements

• You've shipped to production across the stack and you close loops fast — you design, build, debug, and operate
• Strong fundamentals: performance, reliability, security, and product/UX judgment (especially on conversion-sensitive surfaces)
• AI-native builder: you ship production code with agentic tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex CLI, similar). You use AI for speed, keep quality high with tests/CI/observability, and can debug when AI output is wrong
• Thrive in ambiguity and a very small-team environment.
• You're excited to learn new tools and domains fast, and you jump into whatever needs doing

Nice To Haves

• Shopify apps/theme integration experience, or embedded widget/SDK experience in hostile third-party environments
• Video pipeline familiarity (Mux or similar)
• Experimentation/analytics rigor: clean event design, integrity checks, debugging

Responsibilities

• Build and ship across the full stack: Shopify app, storefront widget, AI extraction pipeline, internal tooling
• Harden a live Shopify app and storefront integration across OS 2.0 and legacy theme realities with safe rollouts and easy rollback
• Extend the mobile web creator upload flow with Mux: QR → prompt → record/upload → consent → submit
• Turn raw buyer video into structured product evidence at scale: AI extraction, review/approve/publish, and self-serve tooling

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed