Summary
What you’ll impact
Our organization, an AI-native law firm, is seeking a Founding Engineer to lead product development, scale the engineering team, and define engineering processes. The role combines hands‑on technical work such as architecture, code review, and AI‑first development with leadership responsibilities like hiring and process design.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Ship. Architecture, code review, and the hardest features — this is the bulk of the job.
- Own delivery without trading away quality, stability, or security.
- Help hire, onboard, and grow the engineering team as it scales.
- Shape how engineering runs: planning cadence, review, standards.
- Make AI-first development work — coding agents, evals, and the guardrails that keep speed from costing quality or security.
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- Someone from a high-growth startup who's helped scale a product and a team through a period of real growth, and wants to do it again with funding behind them.
- You ship with AI as a core part of how you work, and you've hired and grown engineers before.
- Must reside in SF/Bay-area and ready to work 5 days a week in office