Founding Full-Stack Engineer

Transparent Search Group • San Francisco, CA

2d • $160,000 - $220,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a founding engineer seat at an early-stage AI company building core infrastructure for LLM-powered systems. If you need tight requirements, stable roadmaps, or a slow ramp, this is not the role. If you ship fast, think clearly, and believe AI-native development changes how software should be built — keep reading. What Youll Own End-to-end product engineering: backend, frontend, infrastructure AI-driven product features (context engineering, internal GenAI tooling) Telemetry, observability, and system intelligence Direct interaction with founders and early customers Fast iteration under incomplete information You will regularly switch between products, systems, and customer realities. That's the job.

Requirements

• 5+ years building and shipping real products as a full-stack engineer
• Strong backend bias (60/40 backend/frontend)
• Production experience with TypeScript, Node, Next.js
• Startup experience where priorities changed weekly — and you still shipped
• You actively use AI tools in your daily workflow (not interested in learning)
• Clear, concise communicator — in writing and conversation

Nice To Haves

• Seed to Series A startup experience
• Experience with developer tooling, telemetry, or infra-adjacent systems
• Public technical thinking (blog, GitHub, X, talks)
• Evidence of learning velocity over pedigree

Responsibilities

• End-to-end product engineering: backend, frontend, infrastructure
• AI-driven product features (context engineering, internal GenAI tooling)
• Telemetry, observability, and system intelligence
• Direct interaction with founders and early customers
• Fast iteration under incomplete information

Benefits

• meaningful equity
• H-1B transfers supported

What This Job Offers

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