Founding Full-Stack Engineer for AI Platform

Empathy Talent; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity 0.25%–2.00%

Job summary

Empathy Talent is seeking its first engineering hire for a full-stack role in San Francisco. You’ll own end-to-end features across AI-first platform, from backend services to front-end experiences, partnering with founders to shape architecture and culture.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years building production-ready apps with React, TypeScript, and Node.js, plus a strong sense of ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of building production-grade web apps.
• Strong experience with React, TypeScript, and Node.js.
• Ability to own features from concept to production.
• Comfort in a fast-moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Partner with founders to shape product direction through user feedback.
• Design, build, and ship full-stack features including authentication, payments, storage, and core services.
• Scale AI-powered systems and improve reliability of workflows.
• Develop prompt engineering strategies and tooling to improve AI performance.
• Build scalable cloud infrastructure to support millions of applications.
• Help establish engineering standards and a high-performance culture from day one.

Skills

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Ownership

Startup mindset

Product quality

Tools

AWS

Neon Database

CloudFront

S3

Job description

Empathy Talent is seeking its first engineering hire for a full-stack role in San Francisco. You’ll own end-to-end features across AI-first platform, from backend services to front-end experiences, partnering with founders to shape architecture and culture.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years building production-ready apps with React, TypeScript, and Node.js, plus a strong sense of ownership in a fast-moving startup environment.