Founding Engineer

San Francisco Until 8/21/2026 First posted March 26, 2025 Last posted March 26, 2025
Job description

About the role

Hiring a full-stack/founding engineers to join our team and focused on product engineering and shipping new features

Things you'll be working on

Architecting and implementing full-stack product features in Typescript/React/Node is the core of what you’ll be doing. Real examples include —

  • Build out agentic workflows that design, build, and optimize online shops

  • Build out product & payments processing infrastructure

  • Launch analytics infra on Clickhouse/Kafka that support billions events/month

  • Own our user onboarding flow from end-to-end

 

Looking for someone who

  • Can be in office 4-5 days/week in San Francisco

  • Is proficient in Typescript/React/Node

  • Uses Cursor/Claude Code to accelerate their work

  • Has built products 0 -> 1 with real users and revenue

  • Is OK operating independently without product/design

  • Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo

  • Has a product and customer-focused mindset

  • Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how products should be built, that’s good

  • Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we’re the ones that have to read it and understand it)

  • Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points

Bonus points if you

  • Have a CS degree or formal computer science/STEM backend

  • Have started a company before

  • Enjoy attending hackathons

  • Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously

  • Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode

  • Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).

Compensation (from employer):
$140K – $500K • Offers Equity

About this role

Summary

Build and ship full-stack features, optimize product infrastructure, own user flows.

Job title

Founding Engineer

Experience level

none

Industry

software

Location requirements

In-office in San Francisco, remote not allowed

Salary

$140k–$500k

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

typescriptreactnode

Preferred skills

cs degreestarted companyhackathonsearly-stage startupvisual design

Specializations

full-stackproduct engineeringtypescriptreactnode
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

San Francisco, CA, USA

On-site City