Founding Product Engineer - AI Pricing Platform

David Joseph & Company; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Full benefits package

Job summary

David Joseph & Company seeks a founding engineer to join a small, product-minded team and own core backend features end-to-end for a fast-growing pricing and quoting platform. This is a backend-leaning full-stack role with real ownership, shipping critical features customers rely on and shaping early product decisions.

Based in San Francisco, the position is on-site five days a week near Montgomery Station, offering a base salary range of $160k–$200k plus equity and a full benefits package as

Qualifications

• Roughly 4 to 8 years of full-stack software engineering experience.
• Track record of owning features end-to-end within a small engineering team.
• Strong backend engineering skills in TypeScript or Python.
• Solid experience with SQL, ideally PostgreSQL or similar.
• Experience building products at a venture-backed startup.
• Strong ownership mentality, driving projects without direction.

Responsibilities

• Building and shipping core backend features for the pricing and quoting platform.
• Developing AI-powered agents launching in the near term.
• Owning product features end-to-end, from design through implementation.
• Contributing to product decisions and understanding the reasoning behind what you build.
• Working cross-functionally in a small company, including occasional support of customer onboarding.

Skills

Full-stack development

Backend development (TypeScript/Python

SQL (PostgreSQL)

Ownership mindset

Startup experience

Tools

Express (Node.js)

React

Tailwind

LLMs / AI agents

PostgreSQL utilities

Job description

David Joseph & Company seeks a founding engineer to join a small, product-minded team and own core backend features end-to-end for a fast-growing pricing and quoting platform. This is a backend-leaning full-stack role with real ownership, shipping critical features customers rely on and shaping early product decisions.

Based in San Francisco, the position is on-site five days a week near Montgomery Station, offering a base salary range of $160k–$200k plus equity and a full benefits package as