Founding Engineer

Overview

The company we are hiring on behalf of is building the world's first autonomous SEO department and are looking for an exceptional Agent Engineer as a fourth team member.

They recently raised from some of the best in the business: Cofounder, CEO @ Perplexity; Cofounder, CTO @ Slack; s16 vc; and many more. They're rapidly iterating our product with paying customers of various sizes.

The company

You'll be joining a team who know what they're doing.
The Founder
was previously a CTO, is an Entrepreneur First alumn, and has also built rockets & Hyperloop pods in the past. We're all founders by trade, technical, and love delivering value for customers at speed.

We've not even launched publicly yet and are already growing super quickly with brands you already know as customers.

Reach out to see a demo.

The why

They're building the world's first autonomous SEO department.

They're doing this because we want to help the best brands get found. Search is rapidly changing right now and there's a huge opportunity to change organic marketing permanently. Soon, the internet will be navigated primarily by agents and buying decisions will largely determined by AIs, only with final human approval.

They're building an AI-native search department to allow your brand to get found.

What if this works? The market for this is enormous. Over $80bn/year is spent on SEO and this will increase when more and more of buying journey happens before even talking to sales. Help us change search for the internet.

What's an Agent Engineer?

Someone who builds agents, using agents, for a web navigated by agents. Naturally, you'll be high agency yourself - meaning you have greater influence over the world around you than your peers.

Enough of that word for the moment. You can think of this like a Full Stack Engineer who talks to customers and has a particular focus on building our agent workflows.

You'll be doing the following:

• Engineering leadership:
   Craft the architecture and establish technical standards that will set the tone for years to come.
• Full stack coding
  : It's no problem if you're stronger in frontend, backend, devops but ultimately you'll need to ship features across the stack, balancing speed and technical debt.
• Product vision:
   Collaborate with customers to build a beautiful, intuitive, valuable product. Have say in the company strategy and product direction.

The stack:
 - This is not a crucial requirement for the role. It's very simple, and what matters more is a history of building great products.

• React Typescript (Tailwind)
• Supabase
• Railway (node) but mostly serverless

Some really strong indicators are:

• Having worked at a very high growth startup. If they've founded one, it's even better.
• If they've been to a top tier university, that's great.
• If they've evidence of really exceptional ability, that's great.
• Experience is flexible, so it doesn't matter if they're senior or junior, it matters if they're willing to work extremely hard and have prior evidence of being an extreme outlier.

The most important things are that you have exceptional ability, a history of doing hard things, and a bias toward taking responsibility.

What we mean by "extreme outlier":

We're looking for candidates with a track record of performing at a level that significantly exceeds their peers. That might include:

• Founding or co-founding a startup — especially one where you built and shipped products end-to-end.
• Graduating from a top-tier university (e.g. MIT, Stanford, Harvard), particularly with technical or entrepreneurial involvement.
• Participating in elite programs like Y Combinator, Entrepreneur First, Thiel Fellowship, Google Brain Residency, or Recurse Center.
• Building ambitious technical projects solo or in small teams that gained real traction — open source, viral side projects, or full production apps.
• Demonstrating obsessive drive or learning speed — like mastering advanced systems design independently, or becoming the go-to problem solver on a scrappy team.

Signs this might be for you:

• Agentic: You're someone who consistently changes outcomes through drive, resourcefulness, and execution.
• Founder mindset: You've built things from scratch—whether as a founder, early engineer, or solo hacker. You're not just comfortable with chaos, you thrive in it.
• Technical mastery: Languages change, but fundamentals don't. You're a great engineer who ships fast, leverages AI in your workflows, and cares deeply about reliability and impact.
• Rapid learner: We're looking for people who can give and receive feedback openly. This should be the steepest and most exciting learning curve of your career.
• Enjoyment: We want this to be the most fun and meaningful chapter of your professional life. If you love solving real problems with smart people, you'll fit right in.

You likely won't like it here if:

• You want easy work. What we're doing is hard. It requires intensity, deep thinking, and rapid iteration. A+ performance is celebrated. Anything less doesn't work here.
• You don't care about delivering value fast. We prioritize practical impact over theoretical elegance. Shortcuts, simplifications, and real feedback loops are core to our culture.