Founding Engineer: Architect Our AI QA Platform

Spur; New York (NY); On-site; Full time

Job description

TLDR : Spur is any company’s AI QA Engineer. Spur lets you test your website with natural language. We launch web agents that mimic real users.

Spur is founded by 2 Yale Alums, Ex-Figma & DeepMind. We are backed by leading investors (First Round Capital, Neo, Pear VC, Conviction). We are transforming the testing world, completely re-imagining automations from first principles. We're already accelerating engineering teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

Founding Engineer / FullStack

As our first engineering hire, you will have unparalleled autonomy to architect solutions, drive technical decisions, build culture, and bring innovative features to life for our customers. You'll own the entire development lifecycle—from ideation, to deployment, to marketing—working across our full technology stack to ship and communicate features to our customers.

Here is an example of what that could look like: A Week of Sprints at Spur 💨💨

Add on - Founder Track:

If the prospect of cross functional roles excites you, we will craft a role where you will have the opportunity to:

• own customer accounts
• sit in on sales calls
• write documentation
• shape our marketing narrative

As a founding engineer you will be:

• Building across the full stack and help shape product direction.
• Launching new features, speaking directly with customers to gather feedback, iterating quickly.
• Working with design team to iterate on features
• Owning parts of the product end-to-end
• Active Role in planning our roadmap every 4 months

You’ll be successful in this role if you…

• Are relentlessly customer focused. We believe in delighting our users
  • How can we make this feature as delightful and magical for the end-user?
• Are curious. You will be dealing with a lot of new technology and challenges every day as we scale—you should be comfortable learning new frameworks on the fly, and in communicating this knowledge to the team.
• Have very strong technical experience with Typescript / Next-JS front-end frameworks.

Bonus:

• Prior experience as a founder or founding engineer.
• Knowledge about the web—you’ve built scrapers, or played around with browsers, javascript, bots, and captchas in the past.
• Have built LLM-powered products.
  • Keep up with the latest developments in AI and Agents.
• Experience with Typescript, React, TailwindCSS, Tan-stack Query, Python
• Passionate about developer tools and sweat the small details that transform both developer and customer experiences

Benefits

• Flexible & Competitive compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Paid company holidays, sick time, and unlimited time off.
• Daily Breakfast and Lunch
• Snacks and beverages are provided in our NYC office
• Lots of Merch!