Founding Engineer

Moritz; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Moritz, an AI-native law firm, is seeking a Founding Engineer in San Francisco to lead product engineering from day one while staying hands-on technically.

You’ll help scale the team, shape engineering processes, own architecture, and ship AI-first features, with leadership responsibilities from the start in a well-funded, ambitious startup.

Qualifications

• Experience scaling a product and a team in a high-growth startup.

Responsibilities

• Ship architecture, code review, and the hardest features; bulk of the job.
• Own delivery with emphasis on quality, stability, and security.
• Help hire, onboard, and grow the engineering team as it scales.
• Shape engineering processes: planning cadence, reviews, and standards.
• Develop AI-first capabilities, coding agents, evals, and safety guardrails.

Job description

Moritz is an AI-native law firm, YC-backed and seed-funded. We pair elite legal counsel with state-of-the-art technology to deliver work faster and more reliably than lawyers or software could alone. Most legal tech sells tools to law firms; we're building the firm around the technology instead. Lawyers and engineers sit on the same team, working the same problems.

You'll join as a Founding Engineer with broad responsibility across building product, helping scale the team, and shaping engineering processes. The role is intended to carry leadership responsibility from the start, while remaining hands‑on technically.

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.

Who we’re looking for

• 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