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Founding Engineer

$150k to $250k

San Francisco / USFull-time3+ yearsPosted Feb 13, 2026

Against the San Francisco typical range

Job description

Full-stack engineer who understands vibe coding tools and how recent AI frameworks work. You'll build both frontend and backend for our enterprise workflow automation platform.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and build both frontend and backend systems powering our vibe coding platform
  • Define technical strategy: system design, data modeling, service boundaries, and infrastructure choices
  • Integrate AI models and build reliable natural language to action pipelines
  • Collaborate directly with customers to translate enterprise needs into product solutions
  • Evolve infrastructure for reliability, observability, and performance at enterprise scale
  • Ship fast while building sustainable, maintainable systems

Requirements

Experience

  • 5+ years building products quickly
  • TypeScript (backend and frontend), React
  • Deep understanding of system design, database architecture, and scaling distributed systems
  • Modern deployment and infrastructure (Vercel, Cloudflare Workers). Infrastructure as code (Terraform). CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
  • Experience with AI frameworks (Vercel AI SDK, Mastra) and patterns (agentic loops, tool calling, streaming, MCP)

Bonus

  • Understanding of tools like OpenCode and how they work
  • Shipped AI/LLM products to production.
  • LLM observability and production debugging (Langfuse, Datadog).
  • Experience at early-stage startups
  • Major contributions to OSS projects

Mindset

  • Founder mentality: hard work, independence, ownership
  • Ready to work in person in San Francisco

Description copied from Jinba's careers page. Read the full posting before you apply.

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