Founding Software Engineer

5 days ago


San Francisco, California, United States RidgeArl Full time $120,000 - $240,000 per year

**About this role

Tooling**

  • Infra
    : Render (app + workers), AWS (RDS, S3, Kafka), Grafana for metrics and logs
  • Data
    : PostgreSQL (primary), ClickHouse (analytics), Redis (caching & rate limiting)
  • Core Stack
    : Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript
  • SDKs
    : Flutter, React Native, Android (Kotlin, Compose), iOS (Swift)

We're looking for engineers who care about what they build and who they build it with. You'll take customer input and product needs and turn them into features that are reliable, well-considered, and fast to ship.

Example projects

  • Build an Android, React Native, and Swift SDK for a publisher integration
  • Add visibility into ad queries for advertisers by classifying and creating a visible taxonomy that is easily searchable
  • Implement a billing system, converting our manual weekly runs to include invoicing and team controls
  • Generate novel ideas for ad formats and run experiments to A/B test the changes
  • Figure out worthwhile publishers and advertisers to target to increase our growth by digging into our data

You might be a fit if

  • You're comfortable working across the stack, tackling new tasks out of your comfort zone, and can handle ambiguity
  • You balance speed with quality and care about the user experience
  • You work well in-person and enjoy fast feedback loops
  • You enjoy breaking down problems and testing your hypotheses

Work experience

  • 2+ years of experience fullstack engineering at a product-​first company
  • full-​stack web development (front end + backend + basic data modeling)
  • Comfortable building end-​to-​end products (front-​end UI,​ backend endpoints,​ integration).​
  • Experience at a top tier tech company,​ either FAANG or VC-​backed startup

Salary

$150K - $250K

Equity

Meaningful Equity

On-site work policy

In-person in SF

Visa sponsorship available

Case-by-case basis



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