Founding Engineer, FullstackDavid Joseph & Company • New York, New York, United States
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Founding Engineer, Fullstack
David Joseph & Company
- New York, New York, United States
- New York, New York, United States
About
$160,000–$220,000 + 0.1%–0.5% equity
About the Company An AI-native platform automating the entire wholesale order-to-cash lifecycle for consumer brands — replacing spreadsheets, email chains, and manual data entry with autonomous, agentic workflows spanning purchase orders, freight coordination, invoicing, and payment reconciliation. Wholesale is roughly 7x the size of e-commerce but still runs on decades-old infrastructure. The product is live with fast-growing CPG brands and has processed $500M+ in annualized wholesale volume. Founded 2026 · 1–10 people · Seed-stage ($3.2M raised) · Industry: AI Tools / supply-chain automation
The Role Own the core platform powering the company's AI agents and customer experience. The moat isn't the model — it's the scaffolding that connects AI to real-world systems (ERPs, 3PLs, retailers, freight partners) with real-world reliability, where downtime means missed shipments for real brands. You'll work directly with the founders, take features from concept to production, and watch customers use what you build.
What you'll be doing
Take customer-facing features from concept to production
Design secure, auditable data models and event-driven pipelines that power AI agent workflows
Develop internal and external APIs and a real-time operator console
Build first-party integrations with ERPs, 3PLs, retailers, and freight partners, plus a resilient sync layer
Establish observability, SLOs, and on-call practices for mission-critical workflows
Work across the full stack wherever the highest-leverage problem lives
Tech stack:
TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, React (Supabase / Next.js a plus)
Requirements
2 to 5 years of software engineering experience, ideally including time at a high-agency startup where you owned product work end-to-end
Strong proficiency in TypeScript and Node.js, the core stack
Postgres for data modeling and query performance
Full-stack capability, including React for customer-facing product surfaces
Comfortable with event-driven patterns — webhooks, async workflows, integrations that keep external systems in sync
Green Flags
Big-tech-then-startup arc. Left a FAANG or scaled company to join something early and shipped real product ownership there, not just feature work inside someone else’s scope.
Background in logistics, supply chain, freight, or CPG-adjacent software (Flexport is the clearest signal)
Has built mission-critical backend systems where reliability and observability actually mattered, not just happy-path features
Experience with AI agent infrastructure or event-driven pipelines in production
Customer-facing engineering instinct: talks to users, cares equally about developer and operator experience, and uses that to make better product decisions
Red Flags
Only big tech or FAANG experience with no evidence of operating without structure and defined scope
Job hopper, short stints that did not result in anything shipped and meaningful
Personal instability flagged from a prior hire
Needs a task queue to be productive, this role requires someone who generates their own priorities
Not willing to be in person in Brooklyn most of the week
Why Join
Real founding-engineer ownership, working directly with the founders
Live product with fast-growing CPG brands and $500M+ in annualized wholesale volume
Greenfield, under-built market (wholesale is ~7x e-commerce)
Details
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Work policy:
Hybrid; strong preference in-person most of the week
Compensation:
$160,000–$220,000 + equity
Visa sponsorship:
None available
Employment type:
Full-time
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Languages
- English
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