Founding Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

✅ This IS for you if

• You’re a full-stack 0-to-1 builder who has shipped to production. Especially in rapidly shipping NextJS apps and working with event-based systems in a serverless architecture.
• You have a genuine curiosity about agentic product experiences and are excited about understanding the impact of AI on engineering users.
• You’re a previous founder or founding engineer. You have built something from scratch that people use or pay for.
• You’re unusually obsessed with hard problems. Your current skills or even what you've done before is less important than your ability to go all-in and accomplish anything that you set your mind to.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to dynamic priorities. You need to have good judgement to know when to let little fires burn and when to immediately jump in.
• You have excellent communication and candor. You’ll be communicating directly with engineers and collaborating with us on key decisions.
• You care about helping swamped engineers fight through the schlep of software development. If that's not an exciting mission for you, it will be hard to stay motivated through the inevitable highs and lows.
• You have grit and perseverance. You should accustomed to picking between hard options and pushing through it.
• You can work in the US long-term. You are a US citizen or green card holder that can start quickly and work with StarSling over many years.

❌ This IS NOT for you if

• You’re not based in The Bay Area (we’ll be a team of four if you join so we’ll be sitting next to each other everyday)
• You’re not willing to work six days per week (we take Sundays off)
• You’re not excited about using codegen tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, etc.
• You’re not comfortable deleting 80%-90% of the code that you write.
• You’re not comfortable with ambiguity and rapid context-switching.
• You don’t like candor- receiving and giving direct, honest feedback.
• You need a well defined structure or career ladder.

🌍 The Opportunity

• Work alongside two experienced co-founders - one who built and sold a dev tools startup and one who led the engineering effort to create the same product we’re creating at scale
• Get experience across the startup stack - you’ll be doing customer support, bug squashing, user interviews, events, and everything else along with writing code
• Be the first employee of the next dev tools category leader - we’re not just building a dev tool, we’re building an engineering platform that every company in Silicon Valley will be using and paying for

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