Founding Engineer
ara.so•San Francisco, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Ara is building the cloud coding agent: an autonomous software engineer that turns a trigger into a pull request and reports back in Slack and Linear. We're a YC company (P26) based in San Francisco, moving fast to redefine how software gets built.
Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and a bias toward shipping
- Experience building products end-to-end (frontend, backend, or infra)
- Excitement about AI agents, developer tools, and the future of software
- Comfort with ambiguity and ownership in an early-stage environment
Responsibilities
- Build and own core product surfaces across the full stack
- Design the systems that let autonomous agents write, test, and ship real code
- Work directly with the founders and early customers to iterate fast
- Set engineering standards, tooling, and culture as we scale the team
Benefits
- competitive salary
- meaningful founding equity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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