Founding Engineer

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Healthcare / Dental

Daily commute stipend

Fully expensed work setup

Gym membership

Job summary

Socket.dev, based in New York, is hiring a Founding Engineer to build and deploy our core AI-powered sales platform for home service technicians. You will implement customer feedback, ship new features, and guide product direction as we scale with the CTO.

You will work closely with the founding team to shape the company’s technical roadmap. Ideal candidates have 3+ years of full-stack experience, strong AI fluency, and a founder mindset.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, ideally at early-stage startups or with shipping real products.
• High fluency with AI tools and approaches.
• Strong communication skills, especially with non-technical stakeholders.
• High agency and urgency to tackle highest-priority problems.
• Growth mindset and comfort with ambiguity in early-stage environments.
• Experience as a founder or aspiring founder is a plus.
• Ability to take ownership and drive initiatives without being told what to do.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack products from 0-1.
• Engage with technicians and business owners to gather feedback.
• Deploy the product live with customers and users.

Skills

Full-stack software engineering

AI fluency

Strong communication

Growth mindset

Founding/entrepreneurial experience

Independent work ethic

Tools

AWS

Posthog

Porter

Modal

Job description

About Robby (YC W26)

Robby is building the AI sales platform for home service technicians.
Technicians are the foundation of this $650B industry, but use software that was built for managers in an office, not the revenue-earners in the field. AI adoption has exploded in the back office (Avoca (YC) @ $1B+, Probook @ $150M+, Broccoli (YC) @ undisclosed), but not yet been built to simplify the technician's experience or amplify their output - until now.
With Robby, technicians can focus on what they enjoy - diagnosing issues and fixing equipment - while our AI makes it simple for them to sell more equipment, do more jobs, and spend less time on menial admin.
The opportunity is massive. For the last few months, the founders have been quietly selling to some of the biggest companies in the country, and Robby is in pole position to win. We need talented people to help us meet demand and scale.
We've raised from several notable VCs, including Robinhood Ventures, Benchstrength VC, Amino Capital, and others. We're well capitalized with multiple years of runway and multiple paying customers. The founders have many years of experience across high-growth startups and organizations like Porter, Ironclad, Affinity, Bain, Amazon, and Uber.

Role

Robby is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us improve and deploy our core product for large home services companies.
Our first product is live with some of the largest contractors across the country. Your job will be to implement customer feedback, build out new features and help with deployments. As we expand to new product lines (coming soon), you will own development of those products with our CTO (ex-Amazon / Harvard, YC backed engineer x2). This is our first hire outside the founders so you will work very closely with us and have a strong say in how we scale the business. You should not take this job if you expect someone to tell you what to do; we encourage everyone to adopt the founder mindset and shape the direction of the company.

Responsibilities

• Build full-stack products from 0-1
• Speak to technicians and business owners regularly to gather product feedback
• Deploy the product live with customers and users, in-person if required

What we look for

• 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience, preferably at early-stage startups, OR strong evidence of shipping real products with real usage
• High AI fluency and experience with the latest tools
• Strong communication skills, especially with non-technical people
• High agency and urgency to get stuff done
• Growth mindset
• Comfort with 0-1, high ambiguity environments
• Previous or future founders
• Ability to roll up sleeves and solve whatever problem is highest priority for the business

Nice-to-haves

• A personal background or family history in the trades
• A passion for UI/UX
• Mobile dev experience (Swift / Flutter)

First 30/60/90 days

• In 30 days, you will ship new features for customers, help train users on the features and collect their feedback
• In 60 days, you will scope out and own the design, build, and rollout of new products for customers
• In 90 days, you will own the improvement and impact of the products and features you build for customers

Example technical challenges

• Incorporating high quality AI features in offline systems
• Architecting high-volume and low latency data pipelines across multiple data sources
• Designing highly flexible software systems to handle the level of customization we supply to customers

Our stack

• Languages: React/Typescript, Python, Swift
• Tools: Claude/Devin, AWS, Porter, Modal, Posthog (among others)

Details

• Salary: $200-250k
• Equity: 0.5-1%
• Benefits:
• Unlimited PTO
• Healthcare / Dental
• Daily commute and food stipend
• Fully expensed work setup
• Gym membership
• Location: NYC, 5-6 days in office. Expect some travel to customer sites, all expenses paid.