Founding Platform Engineer - Backend, Equity & Impact

Digital Waffle; San Francisco (CA); Hybride; USD 200 000 - 300 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity

Résumé du poste

Digital Waffle is hiring a Founding Platform Engineer to own the backend engine behind every customer workflow. This staff-level role offers autonomy to shape production-grade infrastructure at serious volume, working directly with the technical co-founder.

You’ll own scheduling, queues, integrations, and a scalable data-flow stack in TypeScript and Effect, moving toward an agent-native compiler as the platform grows. Salary is $200,000–$300,000 base with 0.5%–1% equity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as backend or platform engineer with production-scale experience.
• Strong TypeScript with functional patterns (Effect, fp-ts).
• Deep experience with Postgres and Redis in production.
• Track record owning problems end-to-end from scoping to shipping to live support.
• Comfort making architectural calls in a startup environment.
• Experience building reliable, consistent, cost-aware systems.
• Familiar with coding agents as part of workflows.
• Hybrid SF Bay Area work setup and seed-stage pace.

Responsabilités

• Own the backend engine behind every customer workflow: scheduling, batching, idempotency, retries and cancellation.
• Design and ship provider integrations across 40+ data providers, handling rate limits, concurrency and cost per call.
• Shape the platform architecture toward a custom agent-native compiler and workflow language.
• Maintain uptime, data consistency and cost per run as product features, not ops tasks.
• Partner with the technical co-founder on foundational architectural decisions.
• Take features from scoping through delivery and close the loop with customers.
• Use coding agents heavily and decide what they produce.
• Contribute to engineering culture, hiring and standards as the team scales.

Connaissances

TypeScript

Effect

fp-ts

Backend engineering

End-to-end ownership

Outils

Postgres

Redis

Coding agents (Claude, Codex, Cursor)

Description du poste

Digital Waffle is hiring a Founding Platform Engineer to own the backend engine behind every customer workflow. This staff-level role offers autonomy to shape production-grade infrastructure at serious volume, working directly with the technical co-founder.

You’ll own scheduling, queues, integrations, and a scalable data-flow stack in TypeScript and Effect, moving toward an agent-native compiler as the platform grows. Salary is $200,000–$300,000 base with 0.5%–1% equity.