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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

backendsystem designproduct developmentintegrationreliabilitybackend engineeringsystem orchestrationAPI integrationsreliability engineeringobservabilityproduct execution

Indonesia Context

Working Hours Overlap:
Flexible — work your own hours
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Keywords

founding engineermulti-agent systemsbackend platformAI workflow automationremote senior engineerearly stage startup
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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Company
Dave Evans
Source
HN Who is Hiring
Salary
Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · Open worldwide
Category
Seniority
senior
PostedNew
Aug 9, 2026

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Yes. Founding Engineer at Dave Evans is a fully remote role open to candidates worldwide.
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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.
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