Salary / Hourly Rate: $150,000 - $220,000 per year
Benefits: Offers Equity
Role Information
Role Overview: N/A
Responsibilities: Talk to users often to deeply understand how to improve Floot's AI and UX (you can expect to spend 10-20% of your time on support), Ship full-stack features and build the foundational building blocks that users will use to build their apps seamlessly (e.g. storage, payments, auth, etc), Improve our AI runtime to handle edge cases and make our agentic system more reliable, Prompt engineering and evals to improve AI output quality (for both function + design), Build robust infrastructure for our end-to-end platform to power millions of production apps
Qualifications: Strong full-stack experience with React, TypeScript, and Node.js: you've shipped production features end-to-end, Atleast 3+ years of experience, Strong sense of ownership: you’re autonomous and own features from start to finish, Fast but thoughtful: you ship quickly without cutting corners on things that matter, Strong sense for UX and product polish: you believe that craft matters
Minimum Requirements: Academic background: Not mandatory, but strong academic pedigree appreciated (e.g. top schools).,Seniority level: 3+ years of experience,Full stack experience with Node.js, React, TypeScript,Strong sense for UX
Screening Questions: This step is completely optional. If you’d like, record a short 2–3 minute video introducing yourself and your experience — or share a recording of your interview with the recruiter if that’s easier. You can upload the link via Loom or Google Drive. This just helps us get to know you better, but there’s no pressure if you’d prefer to skip it.,If available, please share links to your LinkedIn, GitHub, Twitter/X, portfolio, personal website, demos, writing, talks, or other proof (tweets, papers, etc.), or any recent projects you’ve worked on. This helps provide more context about your work.,Tell me about a time you owned a core feature from idea to production in an early-stage environment.,Are you leaning more toward infrastructure (AWS/backend) or frontend (design engineer / framework-level work), and why?,Why do you want to work at Floot?
Company Information
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Additional Information
Interview Process: 1st screening – Co-founder – 15–20 min, Live case, Culture fit – Founders + reference calls
Day to day: Work directly with the founders to design and build core product features, Build and iterate on user-facing features used by early customers, Develop and maintain backend services and infrastructure supporting the platform, Work on AI systems and integrations that power the product experience, Take features from idea → implementation → production with high ownership, Rapidly prototype, ship, and refine based on user feedback, Help shape engineering best practices and contribute to the company culture, Jump across the stack as needed, wearing many hats in an early-stage environment
Team: Report directly to the founders, Work as Engineer #1, partnering closely with the founding team, Collaborate tightly with product and design through the founders, Help define early engineering standards, tooling, and culture
Growth: Opportunity to grow from Engineer #1 into a tech lead or founding engineering leader, Increasing ownership over core systems and architecture as the team scales, Chance to shape the engineering org, hiring bar, and technical direction early, Exposure to building and scaling AI-powered product infrastructure from the ground up, Clear path to broader responsibility across product, platform, and team leadership
Ideal Candidate Profile: Founding-engineer mindset – excited to build from zero and own large parts of the product, Full-stack engineer leaning either toward:Infrastructure / backend (comfortable with AWS, backend systems, reliability), orFrontend (design-engineer type or experience doing frontend framework-level work like rich text editors or contributing to React), Infrastructure / backend (comfortable with AWS, backend systems, reliability), or, Frontend (design-engineer type or experience doing frontend framework-level work like rich text editors or contributing to React), Strong at shipping product end-to-end – can take features from idea → implementation → production, Comfortable working in high ambiguity with fast iteration and changing priorities, Product-minded engineer – cares about UX, not just code quality, Enjoys working closely with founders and early users to shape the product, Values ownership, speed, and technical quality over process and hierarchy, Thrives in an early-stage startup where scope is broad and impact is high, Infrastructure, or, Frontend, Strong experience with AWS, Comfortable designing and operating production backend systems, Experience with scalability, reliability, and infra tooling, Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks, Either:A design-engineer profile (strong UI/UX + engineering), orExperience working at the framework / platform level (e.g., building complex editors, contributing to React or similar tooling), A design-engineer profile (strong UI/UX + engineering), or, Experience working at the framework / platform level (e.g., building complex editors, contributing to React or similar tooling)
