Founding Full-Stack Engineer — AI Platform

Empathy Talent; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.25%–2.00%

Job summary

Empathy Talent is seeking an ambitious Front/Full-Stack Engineer to become the first engineering hire at a fast-growing AI startup in San Francisco. You’ll work directly with the founders to shape product architecture and engineering culture from day one.

You’ll own end-to-end development across AI-powered platform components, with a focus on React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and help define scalable cloud infrastructure and production-grade systems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software engineering experience with full-stack capability.
• Strong experience building production-ready applications using React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Comfortable owning features across the entire technology stack from frontend to backend.

Responsibilities

• Partner with founders to shape product direction through user feedback.
• Design, build, and ship full-stack features including authentication and core services.
• Improve and scale AI-powered systems and tooling for better performance.
• Develop prompt engineering strategies and evaluation frameworks for AI output.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure to support millions of applications.
• Establish engineering best practices and high-performance culture from day one.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Tools

AWS

Neon Database

Job description

Empathy Talent is seeking an ambitious Front/Full-Stack Engineer to become the first engineering hire at a fast-growing AI startup in San Francisco. You’ll work directly with the founders to shape product architecture and engineering culture from day one.

You’ll own end-to-end development across AI-powered platform components, with a focus on React, TypeScript, and Node.js, and help define scalable cloud infrastructure and production-grade systems.