Spur lets you test your website with natural language. Our AI agents act like real users—automating end-to-end testing without requiring traditional QA infrastructure.
Spur is founded by 2 Yale Alums, and is backed by leading investors like First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction, and YCombinator. We are transforming the testing world, completely re-imagining what testing means from first principles. We're already accelerating engineering teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
Read our Manifesto: https://www.spurtest.com/founders-letter
The Role
As our founding infra/backend engineer, you’ll architect the backbone of Spur’s core platform—define, build, and scale mission-critical infra powering our web agents.
We own our entire stack end-to-end—you’ll orchestrate fleets of browsers and web agents in the cloud and optimize them at massive scale. You’ll work directly with the founders, solving frontier infra problems with real customer impact, and set the gold standard across our stack, from low-level infra to the UX delivered by our agents.
What you’ll do
Bonus Points
You’ll Thrive Here If You
This is an in person role at our office in NYC. We’re an early stage company which means that the role requires working hard and moving quickly. Please only apply if that excites you.
Spur is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.
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.
Salary
$180,000 - $250,000
Equity
0.4% - 0.6%
Location
New York, NY
Experience
6+ years
Total raised
$5M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.