Hot jobs of the week
The startups we featured 12 Oct to 18 Oct, founding roles at small teams first.
Build 0 → 1
Leadpoet
Founding GTM Engineer
- San Francisco, CA
- On-site
Detecting genuine buying intent before a prospect even reaches your inbox is a perennial challenge, and Leadpoet tackles it with AI agents that crawl the web for real‑time signals, qualify leads on the fly, and surface a clear “why‑now” context for sales teams. The San Francisco‑based startup, currently a 2‑10‑person operation, is looking for a founding GTM engineer to help bring this intent‑driven pipeline to market.
matcha.fm
Founding AI Engineer (Remote Worldwide)
- United States
- Remote
Job seekers are tired of noisy listings and endless scrolling, so Matcha delivers a zero‑noise, AI‑powered matching service that turns a plain‑text prompt into curated role recommendations sent directly to inboxes as soon as they go live. The platform’s simplicity surfaces under‑the‑radar opportunities that traditional boards often miss, earning strong user love. They’re looking for a founding AI engineer to join the remote‑first team of 2‑10.
STAAC Professional E-Learning LTD
Founding AI Engineer
- San Francisco, CA
- On-site
Helping families access quality tutoring from preschool through secondary school, STAAC Professional E‑Learning runs a virtual academy that pairs qualified tutors with engaging, curriculum‑aligned lessons to make learning effective and enjoyable anytime, anywhere. The small team in San Francisco is looking for a founding AI engineer to shape the platform’s intelligent features.
foundermatcha
Founding Engineer | Fintech / AI Automation | Property Lending | UK/EU | Meaningful Equity
- England, United Kingdom
- Hybrid
Finding a technical co‑founder or reliable engineering partner is notoriously tough, so foundermatcha built a mobile‑first, gamified speed‑networking platform that matches founders with vetted software engineers on skills, vision and personality. Co‑developed with entrepreneurship and psychology experts, the app aims to turn quick, values‑aligned chats into real product launches. They’re looking for a founding engineer to help shape the fintech/AI automation layer that powers the property‑lending matchmaking flow.
Stackfix
Founding Applied AI Engineer
- London Area, United Kingdom
- On-site
Businesses looking to boost EBITDA by cutting manual toil are turning to AI‑driven automation, and Stackfix delivers a platform that modernizes legacy workflows and systems with applied intelligence. The London‑based team of 2‑10 engineers is now adding a Founding Applied AI Engineer to deepen the platform’s capabilities.
Parisi Labs
Founding Engineer
- New York, NY
- Hybrid
By weaving together power‑market data, asset telemetry and weather feeds, Parisi Labs lets operators simulate how the entire energy grid will respond to different decisions. Their flagship offering, Metis, is a suite of AI‑driven world models that capture the physics of complex infrastructure, while the live explorer Ask The Grid puts those models into an interactive interface for scenario planning. The small New York‑based team (2‑10 people) is looking for a founding engineer to help expand this research‑to‑product pipeline.
JustBacked
Founding Software Engineer
- San Francisco, CA
- On-site
Startups fresh off a funding round need a way to surface their new hiring plans, and JustBacked aggregates every open role from venture‑backed companies that closed a round in the past six months—about 19,000 jobs at roughly 900 startups—by pulling directly from each firm’s hiring system and tagging each listing with round size, investors and stage. The platform also offers AI‑enabled search and a paid membership that unlocks same‑day alerts. They are looking for a founding software engineer in San Francisco to help build out the product.
Skyforge Industries
Engineering
robots to assemble the next generation of space infrastructure
IntSense
Engineering
integrate voice, vision and context into robot behavior
RemoteYeah
Engineering
- CZ
Remote job alert! Secure IQ Services needs a Web Developer (Remote). 🏢 Employment type: Full-time, 📍Remote locations: Asia, Oceania, Australia, India, Pakista
CareFrame
Full-stack Developer | Co-founder
- Italy
- Remote
CareFrame, a small Italian startup of 2–10 people, is hiring a full‑stack developer and a co‑founder.
BOND
Backend Engineer
- Greater Sankt Polten
- Hybrid
European SMEs face a labyrinth of over a thousand procurement portals and dozens of languages, making it hard to find relevant public contracts. BOND’s AI platform streamlines that process with tender.match, which automatically surfaces suitable tenders and highlights competency gaps, and company.match, which flips the search by matching supplier needs to a database of more than 28 million firms. The team of 2‑10 in Greater Sankt Polten is looking for a Backend Engineer.
Parkade
Staff Front End Software Engineer
- United States
- Remote
Modern multi‑family buildings and office complexes are still wrestling with paper‑based permits and under‑utilized spots, so Parkade built a digital parking‑management platform that lets managers lease spaces through a simple app and lets long‑term lessees reshare vacant spots, boosting capacity and reliability. The small team of 2‑10 engineers is adding a Staff Front‑End Software Engineer in the United States to help evolve the user‑facing experience.
Early team
Nango
Developer Relations (Founding)
- United States
- Remote
Customer‑facing AI agents need reliable, extensible access to the myriad services they interact with, and Nango provides a unified API integration layer that connects agents to more than 1,000 external APIs via 7,000+ pre‑built tools for auth, calls, triggers and syncs, with deployment options ranging from Nango Cloud to BYOC or self‑hosted. The team of 11‑50 engineers is now looking for a founding Developer Relations person to help shape how developers discover and adopt the platform.
Revion
Founding Engineer
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Hybrid
Revion is rethinking the software stack that runs fixed‑operations teams in automotive service centers, giving shops a unified view of appointments, parts inventory and labor productivity so they can cut downtime and boost margins. The London‑based startup, now a team of 11‑50 people, is looking for a founding engineer to help bring the next generation of its platform to market.
CoffeeSpace
Founding Engineer, Frontend ($175K - $225K + Equity) Stock Market for Athletes
- United States
- On-site
Finding cofounders and early hires is a notorious bottleneck for fledgling startups, and CoffeeSpace tackles that with an AI‑driven talent matching platform that has already logged over 2.5 million swipes and more than 65 000 matches among its 30 000+ users. The San Francisco‑based team of 11‑50 is now looking for a founding engineer focused on frontend development, offering a compensation package in the $175K‑$225K range plus equity.
Roark (YC W25)
Founding Software Engineer — Product
- United States
- Remote
Voice AI is exploding, yet reliability remains a stubborn hurdle, and Roark’s platform adds a QA layer that lets teams automatically monitor, evaluate, and simulate their agents with 40+ built‑in metrics, custom dashboards and persona‑driven test flows. By turning failed calls into repeatable tests, the system closes the loop between detection and improvement, and the team of 11‑50 engineers is now looking for a founding software engineer focused on product.
hussh 🤫
Founding ML Engineer, Applied AI, Full Stack Engineer
- Seattle, WA
- Remote
A private‑AI platform that lets individuals and businesses run their own personal superintelligence agents—like “One Agent,” which securely manages documents, email and calendars, and “One Puppy,” a home‑based supercomputer that powers those assistants without ever leaving the user’s roof—addresses the growing demand for truly personal, consent‑driven AI. hussh, a Seattle‑based team of 11‑50 creators, is expanding its core product group and is looking for a Founding ML Engineer, an Applied AI specialist, and a Full‑Stack Engineer to help bring its private agents and low‑cost supercomputing hardware to market.
Unknown company
Engineering
- GB
two live marketplace apps for resellers and sellers
Survey Guard
Engineering
- US
🚨 Detroit, I’m looking for a Founding Engineer! 👀
ANT-TECH ASIA
Engineering
- FR
🚀 We’re Hiring: Founding Engineer
Ant-Tech Recruitment
Engineering
- FR
🚀 We’re Hiring: Founding Engineer
Myrspoven
Software Engineer
- Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
- Hybrid
By automating real‑time energy consumption, Myrspoven’s AI platform lets commercial property owners and facility managers cut utility bills while hitting ESG targets, already optimizing over 2.5 M m² across a thousand buildings. The Stockholm‑based team of 11‑50 engineers is adding a Software Engineer to deepen the platform’s intelligent automation.
Gallatin AI, Inc.
Senior Frontend Engineer
- New York, NY
- On-site
Today's defense supply chains need real‑time visibility from the battlefield to the depot, and Gallatin’s platform stitches together tactical, operational and strategic data to surface actionable logistics insights across first, middle and last‑mile movements. The New York‑based team of 11‑50 engineers is adding a Senior Frontend Engineer to help bring those insights to life.
Tin Can
Software Engineer, Core Product
- Seattle, WA
- On-site
A modern take on the classic landline, Tin Can lets kids aged 4‑13 call friends and family over Wi‑Fi without the distractions of a smartphone—no browser, app store, camera or spam, just voice plus safety features like emergency calling and quiet hours. The Seattle‑based team of 11‑50 is expanding its core product and is looking for software engineers to help build the next generation of this screen‑free phone.