Founding Software Engineer: AI-Driven Platform with Equity

Clout Kitchen; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Meaningful founding equity

Fast-moving environment

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vis

Job summary

Clouted, the virality engine, is hiring a senior Founding Software Engineer to build the Clouted Engine and platform. This high-ownership role is early-stage and reports directly to the founders, shipping full-stack features end-to-end and shaping the AI/agent infrastructure.

You should be a senior generalist with product instincts, excited about social platforms, data, and AI agents, and eager for founding-team pace and ownership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience (e.g., TypeScript/React/Node, Python).
• Strong experience with API integrations, cloud infrastructure, and shipping production software.
• Startup or 0→1 experience strongly preferred.
• Bonus: LLM/agent frameworks, data pipelines, or social-platform APIs (TikTok, Meta, YouTube).

Responsibilities

• Build and ship core features of the Clouted Engine end-to-end (frontend and backend).
• Own significant surface area of the product, from architecture through deployment.
• Balance velocity with reliability.
• Build pipelines and integrations that automate content distribution across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube.
• Ingest and normalize performance data to power Clouted's distribution intelligence.

Skills

TypeScript

React

Node.js

Python

API integrations

Cloud infrastructure

Startup experience

Tools

LLM frameworks

Data pipelines

Job description

Clouted, the virality engine, is hiring a senior Founding Software Engineer to build the Clouted Engine and platform. This high-ownership role is early-stage and reports directly to the founders, shipping full-stack features end-to-end and shaping the AI/agent infrastructure.

You should be a senior generalist with product instincts, excited about social platforms, data, and AI agents, and eager for founding-team pace and ownership.