Founding Engineer (Equity-First)

Thankly; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Thankly is hiring a software engineer to build and operate features for a software platform that runs within AI assistant experiences. You’ll take designs through implementation and production, contributing across the stack while keeping the codebase maintainable.

Requirements: 3+ years full-time software engineering; production experience with TypeScript and modern web frameworks; experience shipping AI-assisted software; strong data modeling, APIs, debugging; clear written communication.

Qualifications

• At least three years of full-time software engineering experience.
• Production experience with TypeScript and modern web frameworks.
• Experience shipping production software with AI coding tools.
• Strong fundamentals in data modeling, APIs, and debugging.
• Clear written communication.

Responsibilities

• Develop product features using TypeScript and the role’s web application stack.
• Turn engineering designs into production-ready code and identify concerns before implementation creates downstream problems.
• Build and maintain applications that run within AI assistants.
• Use AI coding tools in daily development and review their output carefully.
• Write tests, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain a codebase that is straightforward to work in.

Skills

TypeScript

Modern web frameworks

AI coding tools

Data modeling

APIs

Debugging

Clear written communication

Job description

Role overview

Build and operate features for a software platform and client applications that work within AI assistant experiences. You will take technical designs through implementation and production, contributing across the stack while raising design issues early and helping keep the codebase maintainable.

Responsibilities

• Develop product features using TypeScript and the role’s web application stack.
• Turn engineering designs into production-ready code and identify concerns before implementation creates downstream problems.
• Build and maintain applications that run within AI assistants.
• Use AI coding tools in daily development and review their output carefully.
• Write tests, troubleshoot production issues, and maintain a codebase that is straightforward to work in.

Requirements

• At least three years of full-time software engineering experience; internships do not count toward this requirement.
• Production experience with TypeScript and modern web frameworks.
• Experience shipping production software with AI coding tools.
• Strong fundamentals in data modeling, APIs, and debugging.
• Clear written communication.

Benefits and work setup

• Full-time, remote role based in the United States.
• Equity-first compensation; the source does not specify a salary.
• At least four hours of daily overlap with Eastern Time is expected.
• The application asks for a GitHub or project link and one sentence about your best shipped work.