Founding Engineer, SF

Role Description

This is a full-time hybrid role for a Founding Engineer at Wrangle, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The responsibilities are on building critical architecture for search functionality and cross-functional collaboration, expanding on existing architecture and working with large-scale data pipelines. You'll be working with the team to build the most accurate search infrastructure over large sets of unstructured data, integrate with customer-facing data sources, and more.

You'll have lots of agency and be part of a fast-moving environment with real impact.

Process

If selected from the initial pool, you'll be briefly screened by one of the founders for eligibility. There will be a second screen to assess ability, and discuss culture and role fit. If selected post-screen, you'll communicate directly with the founding team to set up a paid work trial where you'll be given a specific focus and asked to implement changes/new functionality, where you'll be evaluated on following guidelines, utilizing available resources (AI permitted), and quality of the output.

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of side projects, passion driven exploration and proven work

• Strong design sense and level of craft exhibited in work

• Experience with large data and complex systems architecture is a nice to have

• Full-stack experience with React, Node, SQL, Tailwind, and adjacent languages

• Experience with ranking/search algorithms and AI agents are a plus

• Ability to work hybrid and be in the office (Menlo Park or SF) multiple days a week

• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment

• Prior startup experience preferred but not required

• Prior founding experience is a huge plus

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Compensation

Compensation is in the $100k-150k range, with competitive equity.

To apply, reach out to reid@wranglejobs.com!