Founding Engineer — Real Estate AI Platform (Hybrid, Equity)

Truebase; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Truebase is looking for a Founding Engineer to build the system that turns fragmented real estate data into accurate, traceable insights for multi-million-dollar decisions. You will own architecture, work directly with customers, and co-create the product roadmap with the CEO.

You’ll lead AI/ML reasoning, design scalable product abstractions, and own deployments while shaping DevOps, observability, and performance across the stack in a hybrid San Francisco setting.

Qualifications

• Take an ambiguous problem from a customer conversation to production.
• Aggressively use AI development tools like Codex or Claude Code while maintaining testing, observability, and maintainability.
• Adapt quickly to changing environments in a growing startup.
• 3+ years experience building full stack applications.

Responsibilities

• Working directly with customers, translating recurring workflows / pain points into scalable product abstractions, and owning delivery through technical design, implementation, and production deployment.
• Designing and owning our AI architecture: combining model reasoning, retrieval, deterministic rules, tool use, and human approval to deliver outputs that are financially correct, source-backed, and safe to act on.
• Crafting the interfaces owners use to review performance, investigate recommendations, and approve actions.
• Building DevOps (CI/CD, observability, monitoring, and deployments) to support rapid iteration with early customers.

Skills

Full-stack development

React

TypeScript

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS

AI tooling

Tools

CI/CD

Observability

Job description

Truebase is looking for a Founding Engineer to build the system that turns fragmented real estate data into accurate, traceable insights for multi-million-dollar decisions. You will own architecture, work directly with customers, and co-create the product roadmap with the CEO.

You’ll lead AI/ML reasoning, design scalable product abstractions, and own deployments while shaping DevOps, observability, and performance across the stack in a hybrid San Francisco setting.