Founding Engineer / Full Stack

New York, NY
Full-time
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About the role

TLDR : Spur is any company’s AI QA Engineer. Spur lets you test your website with natural language. We launch web agents that mimic real users.

Spur is founded by 2 Yale Alums, Ex-Figma & DeepMind. We are backed by leading investors (First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction). We are transforming the testing world, completely re-imagining automations from first principles. We're already accelerating engineering teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

Founding Engineer / FullStack

As our first engineering hire, you will have unparalleled autonomy to architect solutions, drive technical decisions, build culture, and bring innovative features to life for our customers. You'll own the entire development lifecycle—from ideation, to deployment, to marketing—working across our full technology stack to ship and communicate features to our customers.

Here is an example of what that could look like: A Week of Sprints at Spur 💨💨

Add on - Founder Track:

If the prospect of cross functional roles excites you, we will craft a role where you will have the opportunity to:

  • own customer accounts
  • sit in on sales calls
  • write documentation
  • shape our marketing narrative

As a founding engineer you will be:

  • Building across the full stack and help shape product direction.
  • Launching new features, speaking directly with customers to gather feedback, iterating quickly.
  • Working with design team to iterate on features
  • Owning parts of the product end-to-end
  • Active Role in planning our roadmap every 4 months

You’ll be successful in this role if you…

  • Are relentlessly customer focused. We believe in delighting our users
  • How can we make this feature as delightful and magical for the end-user?
  • Are curious. You will be dealing with a lot of new technology and challenges every day as we scale—you should be comfortable learning new frameworks on the fly, and in communicating this knowledge to the team.
  • Have very strong technical experience with Typescript / Next-JS front-end frameworks.

Bonus:

  • Prior experience as a founder or founding engineer.
  • Knowledge about the web—you’ve built scrapers, or played around with browsers, javascript, bots, and captchas in the past.
  • Have built LLM-powered products.
  • Keep up with the latest developments in AI and Agents.
  • Experience with Typescript, React, TailwindCSS, Tan-stack Query, Python
  • Passionate about developer tools and sweat the small details that transform both developer and customer experiences

Benefits

  • Flexible & Competitive compensation.
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Paid company holidays, sick time, and unlimited time off.
  • Daily Breakfast and Lunch
  • Snacks and beverages are provided in our NYC office
  • Lots of Merch!

About Spur

Spur is an AI-powered QA platform (YC S24) that builds autonomous browser agents to test websites and applications like real users. Trusted by top e-commerce brands including Alo Yoga, Living Spaces, HelloFresh, Nextdoor, and Abercrombie & Fitch, Spur is reimagining how digital teams ship with confidence.

Our Mission: Don't make your users QA your product. We want to help our customers deliver the best digital experiences possible.

Instead of brittle scripts or endless manual testing, Spur uses agentic AI that adapts to UI changes, catches real bugs, and runs tests in parallel. The company owns all infrastructure in-house, from the browsers that are launched to the simulators and emulators that run tests, to the UI that presents results to customers.

Culture: Spur is a small, elite team of builders from DeepMind, Figma, ex-founders, and customers. The team values high agency, curiosity, and a relentless focus on delighting users. Engineers are generalists who work across the entire stack, are customer-facing, and move fast with minimal hand-holding.

Required skills

Python
TypeScript
Next.js

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Job details

Salary

$130,000 - $225,000

Equity

0.2% - 2%

Location

New York, NY

Experience

0+ years

Company

NameSpur
Industryai, devtools, b2b
Team Size11

Funding

Total raised

$5M

Last stage

Seed

Investors

FFirst Round
Pear VC
NNeo
CConviction
LLiquid2Ventures

Founders

Sneha Sivakumar

Sneha Sivakumar

LinkedIn
Anushka Nijhawan

Anushka Nijhawan

LinkedIn

What happens next.

No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.

01

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

02

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

03

A meeting lands on your calendar

If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.