Founding Engineer

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Founding Engineer building core systems and advanced backend products for Frontier, an enterprise automation startup. Collaborating closely with leadership on high-level engineering challenges.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇳 IndiaMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

DjangoPostgresPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Your mandate is to build the core systems, advanced backend products, and engineering culture that let Frontier scale our leading enterprise automation and workflows.
This means owning complex production systems, optimizing internal operational tooling, building multi-agent architectures, and creating the custom sub-agent infrastructures, pipelines, and harnesses that achieve near-100% initial code generation velocity safely.
You will work directly with our leadership team and senior operators on the company’s highest-leverage engineering problems: end-to-end data processing speed, high-concurrency search quality, operator productivity, platform onboarding, client intelligence, and AI-assisted operations.
We are only interested in someone who takes a long-term ownership mentality to technical architecture, infrastructure stability, and core business partnerships.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Hacker Mindset: You are a hacker in all aspects of life.
Full-Stack Depth: You are a strong full-stack engineer with a heavy backend bias.
Production Ownership: You have owned complex production systems that real customers or business operators depend on daily.
Startup DNA: You have experience with early-stage, high-growth tech environments, operating within lean and efficient teams.
Leadership Capabilities: You have strong leadership skills with experience in building, mentoring, and managing high-performing engineering teams or technical pods.
The AI Frontier Builder: You do not just use AI tools as basic autocomplete assistants or for standard boilerplate. You are actively engineering custom sub-agents and localized testing guardrails to push development to near-100% autonomous code execution.
Autonomous Velocity Master: You frequently hit hard rate limits on frontier tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) because they serve as your primary pipeline execution interface.
Concrete Portfolio: You have taken ultimate ownership and responsibility for an existing product or system before and possess a portfolio, GitHub repo, Loom, write-up, or concrete example of an application you built from scratch.
Language Proficiency: You have strong proficiency with Python, PostgreSQL, and associated ORM frameworks (specifically Django and FastAPI).
Ambiguity Decomposer: You know how to cleanly decompose ambiguous work into technical specs, discrete tasks, automated tests, evals, and reviewable artifacts.
Innovative Thinker: You are a creative thinker with the ability to identify innovative growth opportunities and experiment with new approaches.
Agent Failure Detection: You can tell when a generative agent is solving the wrong problem, overfitting to a test, hallucinating confidence, or making the codebase harder to maintain long-term.
Verification Disciplined: You care deeply about verification: tests, logs, traces, screenshots, PR reviews, evals, and hard evidence over subjective vibes.
Strategic Judgment: You have strong product judgment and can navigate smoothly from a business bottleneck to a clean technical design without needing everything pre-specified.
Disciplined Velocity: You move quickly, but you do not confuse speed with mess. You can lead people, set team standards, give direct feedback, and build a team that gets stronger over time.

Benefits

Comp & perks

High-Impact Ownership: Own the infrastructure for an established company with real product-market fit, high-profile customers, fast scaling, and a clear operational problem worth solving.
Capital Stability: We have been profitable many more of our years than not, and all of our organizational design and capital allocation are about being one of the most consequential companies for human flourishing over the coming decades, rather than near-term fundraising cycles.
Immediate Leverage Work: Work on a clear operational ecosystem where optimized software immediately improves customer experience, margins, unit economics, and team capacity.
Executive Access: Work directly with the company's cofounders, most senior executive leadership, and operators who treat AI-native systems as a core foundation of how the company runs.
Work Smarter Culture: We are big believers in always seeking to work smarter rather than working harder, ensuring our incentives align with excellent work/life balance.
Elite Mentorship: Have regular access to two advisors who are world-class startup founders/CTOs, who together have written most of the software behind funds managing over $15B, who would be excited to provide mentorship and give advice regularly.
Velocity Values: Grow with a team that values speed, standalone ownership, direct feedback, and practical systems that make customers' lives better.
Career Trajectory: Have many opportunities for personal, career, and compensation growth.
Shift Schedule: You will be working in US shift timings.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonPostgreSQLDjangoFastAPIMulti-Agent ArchitecturesEnd-to-End Data ProcessingAutomated TestingCode Generation VelocityComplex Production SystemsTechnical Specification Decomposition

Soft Skills

Innovative ThinkingStrategic JudgmentAmbiguity DecompositionLeadership CapabilitiesCreative Problem Solving