Software Engineer for AI Startup (San Jose)

A cutting edge AI startup based in San Francisco is looking for a founding engineer to own backend of their code generation platform. Software should be beautiful, and this firm aims to provide generative creativity, allowing users to explore endless designs from a single idea. This role is for an engineer who is passionate about building sophisticated, performant, and scalable backend systems for AI-powered design tools.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of impactful work at companies known for their sophisticated backend engineering, major contributions to notable open-source projects, or a seriously impressive portfolio of complex backend builds. Experience with chat applications, reliable streaming, headless browser automation (Puppeteer / Chromium), and managing complex project state is highly desirable.

Express.js, Next.js (server actions), AWS (infrastructure primitives), Terraform, Pulumi, SST, OpenAI SDK, Anthropic SDK, Gemini SDK, Puppeteer, Chromium

180-235k base + equity