Venture Software Engineer

GitwitTulsa, OK
91d$125,000 - $165,000

About The Position

Be the First Engineer at a New AI-Native Startup. We’re not hiring just another software engineer. We’re hiring a founding engineer to join one of our newest ventures at Gitwit. This means you’ll step in as the technical cornerstone of a venture right as it gains traction, building on the MVP foundation, shaping product direction, and helping transform it from an early prototype into a scalable company. Great engineers build elegant infrastructure. Great founding engineers go further. They ask what should be built, not just how. They care about usability, business impact, and long-term technical health. They thrive in uncertainty, moving fast while building for scale, and they’re motivated by the rare chance to help define a venture’s DNA from the beginning. Gitwit is a venture studio focused on building AI-native startups. Over the next five years, we’ll launch 15+ new software companies from scratch, through a process of insight discovery, rapid prototyping, lean MVPs, and user-driven iteration. In just the last 18 months, ventures we’ve launched have already created $35 million in valuation, and we’re just getting started. As a founding engineer, you’ll step into one of these ventures as the first technical hire, collaborating directly with the founding team and Gitwit’s studio partners. You’ll bring ideas to life, test them with real users, kill what doesn’t work, and double down on what does. We’re not looking for someone just to write code. We’re looking for a builder who thrives in the zero-to-one journey, someone who can design, ship, and iterate quickly while helping define the product vision and the company’s technical future.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional full-stack engineering experience
  • Previous startup or early-stage experience, or a strong desire to dive into zero-to-one environments
  • Proven track record of building software from scratch
  • Ability to ship real products fast and iterate based on user feedback
  • Deep product intuition and curiosity about what should be built
  • Experience balancing short-term practicality with long-term technical considerations
  • Ability to set technical direction and communicate it clearly to non-technical teammates
  • Startup grit, comfortable wearing many hats, and solving unstructured problems
  • Humility that fuels curiosity, openness to feedback, and the ability to debate ideas productively
  • Experience scaling MVPs into production systems with real traction
  • Familiarity with AI/ML tools, vector databases, or autonomous agents
  • A strong product sense that balances UX, reliability, and performance
  • A history of mentoring or leading engineers, even informally
  • The ability to challenge assumptions and persuade a team to test new directions

Responsibilities

  • Ship code daily building prototypes, MVPs, and first-production systems that users love.
  • Lead technical architecture from zero-to-one, balancing speed and scalability.
  • Shape the product roadmap alongside the founding team, not just implement it.
  • Build full-stack web or mobile apps, depending on venture needs, with fast feedback loops.
  • Wire up AI frameworks (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini) into intuitive user products.
  • Set engineering culture and practices from testing standards to delivery speed.
  • Make early technical decisions that will shape the company’s trajectory.
  • Kill bad ideas quickly, and scale promising ones with conviction.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary + meaningful equity
  • Generous PTO
  • Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401k with 4% match
  • Life insurance
  • Cell phone reimbursement
  • Monthly parking stipend
  • Weekly team lunches
  • Dog-friendly work environment
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Casual work attire
  • High-trust, high-autonomy culture
  • Close collaboration with experienced entrepreneurs, designers, and researchers in a private and collaborative workspace at one of the coolest office buildings in Tulsa
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