Every tool you use was built as an island, so you became the glue between them: a name from Gmail into the CRM, a time from the CRM into Calendly, a note from Calendly into a doc. AI showed up and mostly became an eleventh window to paste into.
Sauna is a hybrid of AI and software standing on one shared brain. It holds your context and hands you real software built on top of it, so an ordinary Calendly becomes one that writes the invite itself and knows which of your busy hours bend, and for whom. Software for the path you repeat, AI for the edge that never repeats.
Wordware is the team behind it, 15 people backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator with a $30M seed, the largest in YC's history. We build from an office in the Presidio, fifty metres from Crissy Field beach, and we work absurdly hard because we can see and feel the outcome every day.
You've seen what happens when systems hit scale, and you know which parts to rebuild before they break. This isn't a management role. You're the most experienced builder on the team, and the CTO's partner on every architectural decision that matters.
Sauna's architecture works today. It won't be optimal at 1000x the current load with 50x the integration surface. You'll make the calls that shape what it becomes. Here are a few examples:
TypeScript, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Hono, Drizzle ORM, Postgres, Zod, SST, Vercel AI SDK, Docker, React, Vite
Minimum
Bonus (but not required)
Base salary: $280K–$400K + significant equity + health, dental, 401(k), considerable PTO, gym budget, lunch.
We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks.
AI agents you can rely on
Salary
$250,000 - $350,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
6+ years
Total raised
$30.5M
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.