Founding Engineer: Platform Architect & Full-Stack Builder

Infinite Lambda; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Infinite Lambda, based in San Francisco, seeks a Founding Engineer to define, build, and own the platform's technical foundation, from architecture to production reliability.

You will work directly with founders and early customers to translate real-world requirements into robust, high-quality software across frontend, backend, and cloud services, delivering impactful products in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 2–5+ years of professional software engineering delivering 0-to-1 products.
• Experience building production systems with low downtime and scalability.
• Excellent communication and ability to influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate services and user-facing features from requirements to production support.
• Develop highly available, event-driven systems to scale with transaction volumes.
• Collaborate with founders and early customers to translate requirements into robust software.
• Make technical decisions balancing speed and long-term scalability across stack and cloud.

Skills

Full-stack development

Event-driven architectures

System design

Cross-functional collaboration

Startup mindset

Tools

Next.js/TypeScript

C#

Go

Python

Cursor

windsurf

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Infinite Lambda, based in San Francisco, seeks a Founding Engineer to define, build, and own the platform's technical foundation, from architecture to production reliability.

You will work directly with founders and early customers to translate real-world requirements into robust, high-quality software across frontend, backend, and cloud services, delivering impactful products in a fast-paced environment.