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Founding Engineer

Geography: North America | Pacific Standard Time Zone

Capabilities: founding team for startups

Founding engineer(s) will be involved in strategy, partnerships, and hiring other engineers, while architecting and developing a product at a rapid pace. You will play a major role and greatly influence the nascent organization as a whole as it scales.

Important Questions you already know the answers

  • Am I innovative? Building a new business asks the founding technical person much more than the know-hows and diligence, but the capability to constantly innovate small and big, day and night, to innovate to put our fires, and to innovate to reach the sky.

  • Do I have the temperament and determination? Excellent product persons, engineers, or business folks might excellent in an existing, large high-tech company, but buckle under long hours, or in ambiguous startups environment. There is not a clock, and no one will check your attendance - you are an owner, not an employee. You worry about board meetings as well as office electricity bills.

  • Am I versatile and curious as an engineer? A startup might pivot its technical backend multiple times to adapt product-market fit. As the founding engineer, you are not only building what’s in sight in the next six months, but the products and services of the future.

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