Founding Engineer

MexicoDev

San Francisco (CA)

Hybrid

USD 220,000 - 280,000

Full time

23 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Job summary

MexicoDev is seeking a founding engineer in San Francisco for a high-ownership role shaping the core platform that connects farmers, processors, and food brands. You’ll work directly with the founders to build a data platform for the food industry and layer AI on top of it.

We’re targeting a salary range of $220k-$280k with meaningful equity, and the role is hybrid in SF. Stack includes Kotlin, React, TypeScript, GCP, Postgres, and Terraform, with a strong emphasis on ownership and impact from

Qualifications

  • Founding engineer experience preferred.
  • Ability to own features end-to-end.
  • Collaborate with founders to shape product roadmap.

Responsibilities

  • Own features and platform components from design to production.
  • Work directly with founders to build a data platform for the food industry and the AI layer on top.

Tools

Kotlin
React
TypeScript
GCP
Postgres
Terraform

Job description

Open to applicants in Not stated

Pay * USD (inferred) 220k - 280k “$220k-$280k”

Experience Not stated

Visa sponsorship Not stated

Work authorization Not stated

* The currency was inferred from context because the posting only uses the $ sign.

What the posting tells you
  • Ownership The hire will own specific features, components or decisions. “This is a high-ownership seat. You'll work directly with the founders, who come from food, to build a platform that pulls together fragmented food-industry data…”
  • Specific responsibilities Some concrete projects, systems or problems the hire will work on. “This is a high-ownership seat. You'll work directly with the founders, who come from food, to build a platform that pulls together fragmented food-industry data…”
  • Transparency Pay, hiring process and team are all described. “Fig | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (hybrid) | $220k-$280k + meaningful equity”
  • Stated working conditions One working condition is stated. “Fig | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (hybrid) | $220k-$280k + meaningful equity”

Based only on the posting text; anything it does not mention is left unrated.

Original text

Fig | Founding Engineer | San Francisco (hybrid) | $220k-$280k + meaningful equityFig is hiring its founding engineer.Fig builds software for industrial ingredient processors, the companies between farmers and the food brands you buy. Most of them still run on paper binders: production schedules, sanitation checks, quality logs. Tech has mostly ignored them.This is a high-ownership seat. You'll work directly with the founders, who come from food, to build a platform that pulls together fragmented food-industry data, then the AI layer on top of it. Think Glean for the food industry. Customers who signed on as design partners a year ago are still here and still shape the roadmap.Stack: Kotlin, React, TypeScript, GCP, Postgres, Terraform.

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