Founding Lead Engineer | Series A Unicorn

We’re partnering with a Series A startup building a category-defining product from the ground up. Backed by top-tier investors and led by an exceptional founding team, they’re now looking for a Founding Lead Engineer to help shape the technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture of the business.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants true ownership — not just maintaining systems, but building core products and infrastructure from scratch alongside some of the strongest engineers in the industry.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building scalable, high-performance systems from the ground up
• Working across the stack to deliver product features rapidly and thoughtfully
• Partnering closely with founders, product, and design to shape both product and technical strategy
• Setting engineering standards, architecture decisions, and development practices
• Helping establish a world-class engineering culture as the company scales

What They’re Looking For

• Exceptional technical ability with a strong track record of building complex systems
• Product-focused mindset — you care deeply about user experience and shipping impactful products
• Language agnostic engineers who can pick up new technologies quickly and solve problems at first principles level
• Experience building from scratch in fast-moving startup environments
• Strong ownership mentality and willingness to operate with high autonomy
• Ambition to help build a generational company

Why Join?

• Work alongside a world-class team of elite engineers and founders
• Greenfield engineering challenges with genuine technical ownership
• Competitive salary + meaningful equity package
• High-performance, highly collaborative onsite culture (5 days onsite)
• Opportunity to shape the future direction of a rapidly scaling company from an early stage

If you’re excited by difficult technical problems, building products from zero to one, and working with exceptional people in an ambitious environment, this could be a standout opportunity.

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