Founding Software Engineer

daydream•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

daydream is a platform that automates programmatic SEO, end-to-end. The platform helps businesses identify search patterns, creates content at scale, and automatically improves that content. We've raised >$2M from leading investors like Basis Set Ventures, WndrCo, SOMA Capital and current and former Heads of Growth/Product Growth at companies like Notion, Airtable, Webflow and Dropbox. We're on a high-growth trajectory and we're looking for people who want to join us on the journey to building a billion-dollar company. Our team previously worked together at Flixed , a startup we bootstrapped to $2M+ in revenue almost purely on the back of programmatic SEO. The Problem we’re trying to solve: Heads of Growth love programmatic SEO. It’s the secret growth playbook used by companies like Zapier, Canva, to acquire millions of visitors. The problem is, building a pSEO engine currently requires work from SEO analysts, content marketers, software engineers, data scientists and others. As a result, it’s logistically complicated and expensive. You can hire specialized agencies, but they cost $50K+ per month. How we’re solving this problem: daydream is building a SaaS platform that automates every piece of building a programmatic SEO engine. Everything from identifying search queries, to producing 90th percentile quality content at scale, all the way to automatically updating that content. Why we’re hiring: Demand for daydream is growing fast as our ARR has already doubled since the inception of our company, all before launching a generally available product. This is exciting, but it also means we need to hire to build product faster and meet the demand. We’re looking for senior engineers that are excited to work with LLMs to serve one of the biggest markets in the world.

Requirements

Senior engineers that are excited to work with LLMs to serve one of the biggest markets in the world.
Ownership Areas: Building the daydream web app
App Quality and UX
Working with customers
1 month Build context: You’ll get to know Ashok, Thenuka, Kelsey, Shravan and the rest of the team as you work on the daydream app.
The frontend uses a T3 inspired React stack and is written in Typescript.
You’ll gain and understanding of our app structure and roadmap.
Learn the product: We believe that it’s important for everyone on the team to understand our product well.
Commit your first code: You’ll start by building scoped-out features to get your feet wet in our codebase.
The first few projects will be frontend-heavy, and gradually ease in to more backend work.
Within 1 month you’ll have committed your first few features and bug fixes.
3 months Research exploratory ideas: As you learnt the ropes, you’ve implemented features that have been scoped out by our team.
With the context you’ve gained on the product, help research our more exploratory ideas.
Data can help guide decisions, but instinct is important too.
Implement backend changes independently: With the context you’ve gained, build out small-medium backend changes independently.
Of course, the team will support you if you need it.
Scope out new ideas for features: We have a long list of features we’d like to build, and we’re sure you’ll bring more.
6-9 months Support new hires: As a fast growing company, we will likely expand our team further in 6-9 months.

Nice To Haves

C# (.NET 7/8)
Typescript ( T3 based)
Next.JS
Postgres
LLMs (GPT)

Responsibilities

Architect the daydream app frontend and backend, taking into account considerations like performance, maintainability, security, scalability.
Maintain a high quality bar for the app.
Work closely with our designer throughout the engineering cycle to ensure the app is intuitive for users to work with.
Engage with customers, gather feedback and understand their specific needs.
Translate customer feedback into actionable technical requirements and improvements, ensuring that the app continually evolves in alignment with user needs.
Create and deliver content to a real customer.
Build scoped-out features to get your feet wet in our codebase.
Implement features that have been scoped out by our team.
Build out small-medium backend changes independently.
Work with the team to identify the most impactful projects to work on, then execute on them side-by-side with our designer!
Help onboard new hires to our codebase and support them while they ramp up.