Remote Founding Engineer — Equity at Early Stage

Wedoe Search Group

United States

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity
Remote work

Job summary

Wedoe Search Group is seeking a Staff / Founding Software Engineer to join a remote, full-time team building a fast-growing B2B SaaS product. You will influence product direction, architecture decisions, and engineering culture from day one, with ownership of meaningful technical areas and high-impact projects.

You’ll work closely with founders and customers to shape scalable systems, expand capabilities across the stack, and mentor engineers while balancing speed, quality, and reliability.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Strong backend and systems architecture skills with the ability to work across the stack.
  • Experience in a startup or high-growth environment with significant ownership.
  • Comfortable working through ambiguity without heavy processes.

Responsibilities

  • Own major areas of the product from architecture through production.
  • Design and build scalable, reliable systems used by enterprise customers.
  • Work directly with founders, product, and customers to turn complex problems into simple products.
  • Make key architectural and technology decisions as the platform scales.
  • Build new product capabilities across the stack.
  • Help establish engineering standards, processes, and best practices.
  • Mentor other engineers and influence future engineering hires.
  • Move quickly while balancing speed, scalability, and technical quality.

Skills

Leadership
Backend architecture
System design
Communication
Startup experience
Ambiguity handling
Customer focus

Tools

React
TypeScript
REST
GraphQL
CI/CD
Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Wedoe Search Group is seeking a Staff / Founding Software Engineer to join a remote, full-time team building a fast-growing B2B SaaS product. You will influence product direction, architecture decisions, and engineering culture from day one, with ownership of meaningful technical areas and high-impact projects.

You’ll work closely with founders and customers to shape scalable systems, expand capabilities across the stack, and mentor engineers while balancing speed, quality, and reliability.

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