Founding Principal Engineer - Workbench
About The Position
Workbench is a new FIQ platform that automates complex warehouse design: turning real-world requirements, constraints, and operational data into designs that today demand weeks of expert manual work. This is a 0-to-1 founding role. You will be the founding technical owner: designing the core architecture, making the foundational technology decisions, and writing the production code that the early team builds on. As the platform matures, the role evolves into long-term technical ownership and system stewardship. It blends deep engineering execution with architectural responsibility and product-level technical decision-making.
Requirements
- 10+ years building cloud-native backend or platform systems
- Proven 0-to-1 delivery: took a product or platform from nothing to production and owned the architecture calls yourself
- Strong hands-on experience designing and building distributed systems
- Ability to translate ambiguous business requirements into production-ready systems
- Modern cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Strong fundamentals across system design, performance, reliability, and maintainability
- Comfort operating in high-ownership, low-process, early-stage environments
- Proficiency in Python/FastAPI
Nice To Haves
- Experience shipping AI/LLM-driven capabilities in production (requirement extraction, generation pipelines, agentic workflows)
- Workflow engines, orchestration systems, or DAG-based processing platforms
- Optimization, simulation, or computational design systems (layout, constraint solving)
- Supply chain, logistics, or warehouse operations domain
- Prior founding engineer or early platform team roles
- Python and TypeScript/Next.js on Azure; you will shape where the stack goes from here
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end technical design and implementation of the Workbench platform
- Make foundational decisions on architecture, data models, and technology
- Build core services, APIs, and the automation workflows at the heart of the product
- Establish development standards, CI/CD, and engineering practices for the team forming around you
- Rapidly prototype and validate architectural decisions through real implementations
- Work directly with domain experts to encode warehouse design knowledge into the platform
- Identify architectural risks early and prevent technical debt accumulation
- Serve as the primary technical owner through the platform's early lifecycle
Benefits
- Comprehensive health and dental coverage for you and your family
- Competitive paid time off and flexible leave policies
- Retirement savings programs and employer contributions
- Dedicated learning and development budget
- Remote and hybrid work options
- Equipment allowances, internet reimbursements, business travel coverage, and employee stock options (ESOP), where applicable.
- Team events, meetups, and company offsites
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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