Founding Engineer

Job overview

Founding Engineer is an onsite, full-time role in Palo Alto, CA, five days per week. Compensation is $165,000–$210,000 per year plus 0.2%–0.5% equity. The role is with a seed-stage B2B software company building a headcount-planning system of record for enterprise customers. As an early engineering hire, this person owns substantial product work from technical design through production, works directly with founders and customers, and helps the company move toward product-market fit. The role combines software engineering with product and customer-support contributions on a small team.

What you'll do

• Ship and iterate product changes while balancing quality trade-offs
• work with founders to design solutions to customer problems
• speak directly with customers to diagnose and resolve product issues
• own product areas from technical design through production
• contribute across engineering, product, and customer support.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

founding engineer

palo alto ca

david joseph & company

full-time

onsite

b2b software

typescript

node.js

mongodb

gcp

$165k–$210k/year

equity

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Equity of 0.2%–0.5%
• other benefits are not specified.

Why this role

Founding-team role with direct founder and customer access; stack includes GCP, MongoDB, TypeScript, and Node.js; visa transfers including OPT and H-1B transfers are accepted, but no new H-1B petitions.

About the employer

David Joseph & Company is hiring for this role. Industry: Software Publishers. Sector: 51.