Founding Engineer — AI Commerce Platform

davidjoseph-co; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

401(k)

daily lunch

company laptop

health insurance

Bay Club gym membership

Job summary

Wildcard is hiring a Founding Engineer in San Francisco to shape product and culture from day one. You will own frontend to backend work, building scalable attribution, orchestration, and AI agent layers that power the platform for e-commerce brands.

You will work directly with the founder, own major architectural decisions, and ship high-impact features while growing with a small, ambitious team in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years software engineering at a high-signal company.
• TypeScript and Node.js proficiency.
• AI agent and LLM API experience in production.
• Full-stack product development capability.
• Founding engineer mindset, high agency and high ownership.
• In-person San Francisco

Responsibilities

• Build incrementality and attribution systems tied to revenue outcomes for e-commerce brands.
• Scale browser orchestration and retrieval infrastructure across AI commerce surfaces.
• Make core workflows reliable with better queues, retries, and observability.
• Adapt the product to emerging agentic commerce protocols and new platform launches.
• Build AI agents, MCP servers, and new product surfaces across emerging verticals.
• Own the full stack frontend to backend, shipping wherever the highest-leverage problem lives.
• Work in tight feedback loops with customers to translate product needs into shipped features.
• Shape the engineering culture and architecture of the company from day one.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Express

React

Next.js

Full-stack development

AI agent experience

LLM APIs

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Queues/Async jobs

Job description

Wildcard is hiring a Founding Engineer in San Francisco to shape product and culture from day one. You will own frontend to backend work, building scalable attribution, orchestration, and AI agent layers that power the platform for e-commerce brands.

You will work directly with the founder, own major architectural decisions, and ship high-impact features while growing with a small, ambitious team in a fast-moving startup environment.