Founding Engineer

Replo

• $150K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in full-stack development with a focus on Typescript, React, and Node.
  • Proven track record of launching products from concept to market with real users and revenue.
  • Experience in independent work and decision-making without heavy reliance on product/design teams.
  • Ability to write clean, maintainable code with comprehensive documentation for future reference.
  • Comfortable designing software architecture to address customer needs and pain points.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement full-stack product features primarily using Typescript/React/Node.
  • Develop and optimize workflows for online shop management.
  • Build and maintain product and payment processing infrastructure.
  • Launch analytics infrastructure capable of handling billions of events monthly using Clickhouse/Kafka.
  • Oversee the user onboarding process from start to finish.
  • Continuously ship new features with minimal planning and emphasis on execution.

Benefits

  • Flexible in-office schedule, requiring 3-4 days a week in San Francisco.
  • Encouragement for a growth mindset through tools like Cursor/Windsurf/GPT.
  • Emphasis on a culture of shipping quickly, minimizing prolonged planning.
  • Opportunity to influence product development directly, allowing for impactful contributions.
Full Job Description
About the role

Hiring a full-stack/founding engineers to join our team and focused on product engineering and shipping new features

Things you'll be working on

Architecting and implementing full-stack product features in Typescript/React/Node is the core of what you'll be doing. Real examples include -

Platform
  • Building sandbox infrastructure for our agents (managing secrets, proxies, and compute)
  • Building an eval framework for our models
  • Launching an analytics platform on ClickHouse/MSK that consumes millions of events per day
  • Building an agentic workflow orchestration architecture
  • Building a public API for Replo/Slack bots
  • Overhauling our billing system to support arbitrary usage-based billing

Programs
  • Enabling customers to buy domains directly through Replo
  • Building agent-driven insight reporting for businesses
  • Building a full product-customizer UI for custom print-on-demand products
Looking for someone who
  • Can be in office 4-5 days/week in San Francisco
  • Is proficient in Typescript/React/Node
  • Uses Cursor/Claude Code to accelerate their work
  • Has built products 0 -> 1 with real users and revenue
  • Is OK operating independently without product/design
  • Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo
  • Has a product and customer-focused mindset
  • Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how products should be built, that's good
  • Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we're the ones that have to read it and understand it)
  • Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points
Bonus points if you
  • Have a CS degree or formal computer science/STEM backend
  • Have started a company before
  • Enjoy attending hackathons
  • Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously
  • Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode
  • Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).

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