Founding Software Engineer (AI Agents • Messaging)

Department:
Location:
San Francisco, CA
Job Timing:
Full-time
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Responsibilities

  • Design & ship advisor workflows for SMB marketing, sales, and ops—fast.
  • Integrate messaging APIs (WhatsApp/Meta, SMS, Telegram, Messenger) + core infrastructure (auth, billing, analytics, referral/affiliate tracking).
  • Stand up LLM orchestration (retrieval, tool use, guardrails), ensuring reliability and observability.
  • Build lightweight internal tools to enable GTM to learn from users weekly.
  • Set engineering standards, own security/privacy basics, and help hire the early team.
  • Experience

    Skills

  • 5–10+ years building and shipping product in early-stage environments.
  • Strong backend/full-stack chops (TypeScript/Node or Python), Postgres, and AWS/GCP.
  • Hands-on with LLM products (tool calling, RAG, evals) and messaging/telephony APIs (Twilio, Meta WhatsApp, Telegram, SMS).
  • Pragmatic, product-minded, and comfortable talking to customers.
  • Nice-to-haves: voice/WebRTC, fintech integrations, Spanish, analytics/experiment frameworks.
  • Educational Requirements:

    Key Responsabilities

    Our client is a stealth-mode startup building the first suite of SMB advisors that live where owners already are: WhatsApp, SMS, and Messenger, and work multimodally (text, voice, and beyond). Their mission: Put free, high-quality advisors in the pockets of millions of U.S. small business owners: restaurants, auto body shops, home services, and more, to help with marketing, sales, and operations Think Cleo for SMBs. Usage is free; revenue comes from referrals and affiliate partnerships, especially in financial products.

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