Founding Engineer & AI Growth Builder

Gooseworks; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity for founding

Job summary

Gooseworks is building self-improving AI agents that power growth for consumer brands. This founding-level role combines engineering excellence with strong product thinking, requiring hands-on building and strategic decision-making.

You will own product and engineering direction, ship features, and interact with users to shape the company’s trajectory. We're a YC-backed, San Francisco-based startup scaling early traction.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to ship real products with traction.
• Deep engineering skills across the stack and AI agent systems.
• Strong product intuition and design sensibility.

Responsibilities

• Own product and engineering decisions as part of the founding team.
• Ship new products and features and talk to users.
• Decide what to build next and iterate quickly in uncertainty.
• Contribute to app, pipelines, and internal agent harnesses.

Skills

Strong technical background

Built & launched real product

AI agent design & architecture

Agentic engineering understanding

Product & design sense

0→1 early-stage operator energy

Tools

TypeScript

Next.js

Express

Prisma

Postgres

Claude Agent SDK

Trigger.dev

Job description

Gooseworks is building self-improving AI agents that power growth for consumer brands. This founding-level role combines engineering excellence with strong product thinking, requiring hands-on building and strategic decision-making.

You will own product and engineering direction, ship features, and interact with users to shape the company’s trajectory. We're a YC-backed, San Francisco-based startup scaling early traction.