Junior Founding Engineer

SettleKit; Osasco; Presencial; BRL 80.000 - 120.000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

A tech-driven company in Osasco, Brazil, is seeking a Founding Engineer to build an AI-guided settlement app for immigrants. The role offers ownership from day one, focusing on developing features in React and Node.js. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience in full-stack development and strong English communication skills. This is a full-time salaried position with competitive compensation based on experience.

Qualificações

• 2+ years of experience building applications with React and Node.js.
• Experience with AI APIs like OpenAI, Gemini, or Claude is a plus.
• Familiarity with mobile development is beneficial.

Responsabilidades

• Develop features for an AI-driven settlement app.
• Work directly with the co-founder on product development.
• Contribute to the AI research pipeline.

Conhecimentos

Experience with graph-based or conditional logic systems

Proficient in React and Node.js

Comfortable with TypeScript

SQL experience

Strong communication in English

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The mission Every year, over a million people move to the US on work visas. They're smart, ambitious, and excited—and then they land and realize the US is no longer made for newcomers.

It's overwhelming. The information is scattered across government websites, Reddit threads, and outdated blog posts. Every situation is slightly different, and one wrong step can cost weeks.

SettleKit fixes this. We're building an app that guides immigrants through US settlement step-by-step and use AI to automate it.

We're early-stage and have multi-year runway. We need a salaried Founding Engineer to help us build this.

The role

You'll be our primary full-time engineer, working directly with me (Max, co-founder). We're a small team—you'll have real ownership from day one :

Building features end-to-end. Our app is React on the frontend, Node.js / Express on the backend, PostgreSQL via (currently) Supabase.

Working on our AI research pipeline. We use LLMs to generate workflow content from source documents

Thinking, not just executing

What's next for SettleKit and You

Right now, the app is in closed beta. Here's where we're heading :

AI-powered actions. We want to go beyond telling users what to do. Think : AI that helps fill out government forms, generates document checklists, or drafts emails to employers...

Mobile app. Vs. today's webapp

Broader coverage

What we're looking for

1. Must have :

• Experience with graph-based, tree, or conditional logic systems—our core product is a decision graph that adapts to each user's situation
• 2+ years building with React and Node.js (or similar full-stack experience)
• Comfortable with TypeScript and SQL
• You've shipped real products
• Strong communication in English—we work async-first
• Based in Latin America (Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, or similar)—we're focused on LATAM for timezone overlap with NYC and the strong engineering talent in the region

2. Nice to have :

• Experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Claude)
• Mobile development experience (React Native or native iOS / Android)
• You've seen immigration complexity firsthand, or know people who have

3. What matters more than credentials :

• You figure things out
• You write clean code
• You're excited about the mission

Why this role

Founding team. You'll work directly with the founder. Your code ships to real users immediately

Build something that matters. Immigration is broken. Help doctors, scientists, engineers, ... settle fast in the US so they can focus on their life and work

Learn by building production AI systems. You'll get hands‑on experience building real LLM-powered products

(Almost) no AI slop. The product has so far been developed by human engineers, supported by Cursor / Claude

Compensation : Full-time salaried position, above market rate depending on experience.