Founding Engineer

Job description

Join Laborup as our Founding Engineer! We’re hiring a full-stack engineer (front-end leaning) passionate about building exceptional web and mobile experiences. You’ll lead the development of cutting-edge AI-driven products designed to revolutionize manufacturing hiring. You care deeply about both form and function, love shipping quickly, and thrive on building products users genuinely love. About You 🛠️ Good person, growth-minded: You deeply value the "No Asshole Rule," continuously learn, embrace uncertainty, and commit to improving at least 1% every day. Full-stack builder: Experienced in building intuitive, beautiful, and performant web/apps from scratch—comfortable across the stack even if stronger on one side. You obsess over every detail, from pixels to performance. Owner mindset: As a critical part of the founding team, you proactively shape the product and company trajectory with urgency, high agency, and deep care for user needs, form, and function. AI-curious: You've built or have strong interest in best-in-class AI-powered applications. Rapid shipper: Skilled at quickly iterating, shipping products rapidly, and continuously improving based on feedback and data. Early-stage comfortable: You thrive in ambiguity, autonomy, and wearing multiple hats common in startup environments. Product-minded communicator: You genuinely enjoy speaking directly to users to deeply understand their needs, driving thoughtful, user-centric product improvements. Our Tech Stack 🤖 Frontend: React, React Native Backend: NestJS, FastAPI Languages: JavaScript / TypeScript, Python Infra & Databases: GCP, PostgreSQL Data & Search: Familiarity with data modeling; bonus for Elastic Search experience AI & Agents: Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), embeddings, vector databases, or frameworks for building AI-driven agents Voice AI: Bonus points for experience with speech recognition or text-to-speech (TTS) technologies Bonus Points For: Exposure or experience building AI-powered products Mobile development experience with React Native Infrastructure/DevOps experience (GCP) Experience building AI agents, voice-enabled applications, or advanced AI applications What You’ll Do 📈 Develop exceptional web and mobile apps: Rapidly ship high-quality, intuitive products prioritizing usability, responsiveness, and elegant design across web and mobile platforms. Own the end-to-end user experience: Collaborate closely with product and design, proactively driving decisions to ensure every interaction feels intuitive, high-quality, and white-glove. Build a best-in-class AI recruiter: Design and develop an agentic AI recruiting product leveraging cutting-edge large language models, embeddings, and advanced voice AI technologies, creating a seamless and human-like recruiting experience. Craft intuitive tools and incentives: Develop products and workflows that make Laborup indispensable to recruiters and employers, effectively turning recruiting into a compelling, productive full-time job. Rapid iteration and experimentation: Quickly prototype, launch, and refine new features—actively hacking creative solutions for acquiring new users, building liquidity, and driving adoption across industries. Technical leadership and ownership: Own key technical decisions across the full stack, ensuring robust, scalable, and maintainable infrastructure, while shaping how proprietary data and AI transform recruiting. Impact at scale: Your work will directly affect millions, shaping how industries and workforces are built worldwide What You Bring ✅ 3+ years full-stack engineering experience (frontend and backend); comfortable building intuitive, performant web and mobile apps using React, React Native, TypeScript, NestJS, FastAPI, Python, PostgreSQL, and GCP. Early-stage/startup experience: Proven comfort with ambiguity, autonomy, rapid iteration, and wearing multiple hats in fast-paced, high-ownership environments. Strong educational foundation: BS/MS in Computer Science or related technical field preferred (not mandatory if experience is strong). Product-minded: Passionate about user needs, proactive about product improvement, and experienced shipping high-quality products quickly based on feedback and data. High ownership: Independently drive technical decisions end-to-end and deeply committed to shaping transformative products. Bonus Points (Not Required, but Great to Have) 🌟 Experience building products integrating AI technologies (LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, AI agents). Exposure to voice AI technologies (speech recognition, text-to-speech). Familiarity with Elastic Search. Infrastructure and DevOps experience on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP). What We Offer 💸🏥 Competitive salary with meaningful early equity. Full health, dental, and vision coverage. Monthly meal stipend. Unlimited PTO. Opportunity to meaningfully shape a transformative company as part of the founding team. We’re a fast-growing startup building an AI-powered talent platform for manufacturing workers and companies . Our platform matches vetted skilled talent—machinists, CNC programmers, technicians—with essential roles at industry leaders like Boeing, Nissan, SpaceX, and more. We're well-funded, backed by world-class investors, and advised by leaders from iconic companies such as SpaceX, Airbnb, Instacart, LinkedIn, eBay, Alibaba, Facebook, and Workday, who deeply understand hiring great teams at scale. Relevant to this role, you'll have direct access to one of our investors, Jeff Dean, Chief Scientist at Google—widely regarded as one of the greatest engineers of the internet age and the inventor or co-inventor of MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, TensorFlow, Google File System (GFS), Protocol Buffers, LevelDB, Snappy, and Google Brain.