Founding Engineer

Standout is building the AI agents that will replace resumes, cold outreach, and recruiter spam — matching top engineers and GTM talent with startups like PostHog, Hex, and Krea based on actual verified skill, not keyword-matched applications. As a founding engineer, you won't be maintaining someone else's roadmap — you'll be writing the first version of it, shipping the systems that let autonomous agents assess, represent, and place candidates end-to-end.

What you'll do

• Build and ship core product surfaces solo — from the candidate-facing agent experience to the employer matching engine — with no spec handed to you
• Design and iterate on the agentic pipelines (LangGraph, Anthropic models) that vet candidates, assess technical fit, and negotiate introductions
• Build the CLI-based technical assessment tool candidates use in place of a resume
• Own our Next.js/TypeScript/PostgreSQL stack across frontend, backend, and infra, moving between all three as needed
• Work directly with founders on product decisions — what we build next is often your call
• Use AI-assisted tools (Cursor, Claude Code, v0) to move at a pace a normal-sized team can't match

What we're looking for

• 2+ years building production software, ideally full-stack, at a startup or high-ownership environment
• Strong TypeScript/React fundamentals; comfort picking up new tools (Next.js 16, Prisma, OpenSearch) quickly
• Genuine interest in LLM agents and applied AI — you've built something with an LLM API, not just used ChatGPT
• Bias toward shipping over planning — you'd rather ship something rough today and fix it tomorrow
• Comfortable with ambiguity: no PM, no detailed specs, just a problem and a direction
• Bonus: experience with recruiting, marketplaces, or two-sided platforms

You'll be one of the first engineers at a YC-backed company redefining how hiring works — with outsized ownership and outsized impact from day one.