Founding Engineer
Build reliable multi-agent workflow automation for real user impact
As the founding engineer, you will ship end-to-end backend and platform features for an early-stage multi-agent product. Your work focuses on orchestration, integrations, reliability, auditability, and delivering useful workflow automation to users quickly. You’ll collaborate directly with the founder to turn technical direction into a dependable, production-ready system.
Why This Role?
Work directly with the founder to shape a product from early stage to real user impact
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend orchestration for multi-agent workflows
- Build and maintain integrations with external tools and services
- Ensure system reliability, auditability, and observability in AI-driven processes
- Deliver usable workflow automation features to end users with speed and quality
- Collaborate directly with the founder to execute technical vision into product
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience shipping end-to-end backend or platform systems
- Strong backend engineering judgement and product-oriented mindset
- Comfort working in ambiguous, early-stage environments with low ceremony
- Experience with retries, tool boundaries, observability, and human override in AI systems
- Ability to ship product while balancing system design and practical delivery
Required Skills
Indonesia Context
- Working Hours Overlap:
- Flexible — work your own hours
Keywords
View Original Description from HN Who is Hiring
Original description from HN Who is Hiring
Dave Evans | Founding Engineer | Remote | Full-time | $170k-$210k + meaningful equity I’m hiring the first senior engineering hire for an early-stage multi-agent product. This is for a senior backend/platform builder who still likes shipping product, not just designing systems. The work is a mix of orchestration, integrations, reliability, auditability, and getting useful workflow automation into users’ hands quickly. You’d work directly with me to turn a strong technical direction into a dependable product. Best fit: 6+ years shipping end-to-end, strong backend judgement, product range, low-ceremony style, and comfort with ambiguity. Helpful if you care about retries, tool boundaries, observability, and human override in AI systems. Comp is in the $170k-$210k base range with meaningful equity. If that sounds like your lane, email dave@evanlee.co.uk with a short note and links to shipped work.
Salary Context
Similar Engineering roles on LokerDollar pay around $160k/yr (range $1.8k–999.999k/yr, n=655 active listings).
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Frequently asked questions
- Is Founding Engineer at Dave Evans a remote job?
- Yes. Founding Engineer at Dave Evans is a fully remote role open to candidates worldwide.
- What is the salary for Founding Engineer at Dave Evans?
- The listed pay range for this role is $170k–210k/yr.
- What type of employment is Founding Engineer at Dave Evans?
- This is a full time position.
- How do I apply?
- Click the "Apply" button on this page to go to the official application at Dave Evans.
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