Salary / Hourly Rate: $130,000 - $200,000 per year & Equity 1-1.5%
Benefits: Equity (1-1.5%),Completely flexible paid time off / sick leave,Food in the office,Fun (often exotic 👀) company offsites,We do fun stuff together! Drinks, dinners, sports, activities
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Responsibilities: 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.
Qualifications: React Typescript (Tailwind), Supabase, Railway (node) but mostly serverless, 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.
Minimum Requirements: Must be comfortable working across frontend and backend, ideally with experience in React (TypeScript) and Node.,Must demonstrate an ability to independently solve complex problems, ship fast, and navigate ambiguity with minimal supervision.,Has experience at an early-stage, high-growth startup or has founded/built their own project.,Able to talk to users, gather feedback, and rapidly iterate on product design and features.
Screening Questions: Tell me about a time you shipped something end-to-end. What tech did you use and how did you approach trade-offs?,Describe a situation where you had to move extremely fast in a high-stakes or high-pressure environment. How did you prioritize?,Have you ever built something that others didn’t think was possible or practical?,How have you incorporated user feedback directly into the product you were building?,What’s a technical architecture decision you made that you're particularly proud of (or would do differently now)?
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Interview Process: Record a short Loom video showcasing something you’ve built in the past, Walk us through what it does and how you built it, Doesn’t need to be polished — just show us something you’re proud of, Get to know each other, Understand broader company <> you fit, Establish logistical fit, Showing the UI + functionality of things you built, Sharing your screen and talking through code you wrote, Talking about who what when why for each, Who used it, Go through a problem we’re looking to solve together, Might be something currently on our roadmap, might be a similar problem we faced before, Share your previous work, Use a code editor, Ask questions, Google, Use AI, Talk through your story in depth, Understand your goals & motivations, Understand your working style, Tell you more about us, No prep required, What it’ll be like working with us, How Telepathic can be the catalyst to helping you reach your goals, Visas/relocation/logistics, Compensation/benefits, How we make this the most fun & rewarding chapter of your life!
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Team: Work mostly reviewed by other engineers, reports to Founder.
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Ideal Candidate Profile: 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., 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 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., Tom Husson, Fergus White, Stephane Remi
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