What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Bizly?
About Us
With AI bots running amok, "in real life" (IRL) is emerging as the most important play in the B2B marketer's toolkit. We're building the world's best way for marketers to book IRL gatherings—a marketplace with the most unique IRL experiences, transparent package pricing, and three-click booking.
We already serve 5% of the Fortune 500, have processed $100M in events this past year, and recently signed several new distribution partners including Booking.com for Business. Our core enterprise business is now profitable and we're launching a revolutionary new product offering and we need your help.
As our Founding Engineer, you'll own features end-to-end: from the APIs and data models that power our marketplace to the fluid, delightful interfaces that makes bookings feel joyous. The core infrastructure is in place—your job is to take it to the next level.
What You'll Own
Backend: Build the Marketplace Engine
Evolve our Next.js architecture, design robust APIs for partners, build the booking engine and pricing systems that scale across distribution channels. Create the technical foundation that handles millions of bookings.
Frontend: Craft Delightful Interfaces
Build interfaces that feel alive—smooth transitions, micro-interactions, responsive animations. Maintain a high bar of quality matching the world's best consumer products. Make enterprise software feel effortless.
AI: Integrate Intelligence Where It Matters
Integrate LLMs into search, recommendations, and automation where they create real value. Build features that feel magical while maintaining reliability.
Build a killer team with a world-class culture
We're looking for someone who is a natural tinkerer. Wants to architect, code, build, and ship. But is also a natural team builder and wants to expand our team as needed. With AI coding tools, the game has changed and you're a pro at right sizing the organization accordingly.
What We're Looking For
We evaluate fit based on three things: values, abilities, and skills.
Values:
In-person in Palo Alto, CA
With AI bots running amok, "in real life" (IRL) is emerging as the most important play in the B2B marketer's toolkit. We're building the world's best way for marketers to book IRL gatherings—a marketplace with the most unique IRL experiences, transparent package pricing, and three-click booking.
We already serve 5% of the Fortune 500, have processed $100M in events this past year, and recently signed several new distribution partners including Booking.com for Business. Our core enterprise business is now profitable and we're launching a revolutionary new product offering and we need your help.
As our Founding Engineer, you'll own features end-to-end: from the APIs and data models that power our marketplace to the fluid, delightful interfaces that makes bookings feel joyous. The core infrastructure is in place—your job is to take it to the next level.
What You'll Own
Backend: Build the Marketplace Engine
Evolve our Next.js architecture, design robust APIs for partners, build the booking engine and pricing systems that scale across distribution channels. Create the technical foundation that handles millions of bookings.
Frontend: Craft Delightful Interfaces
Build interfaces that feel alive—smooth transitions, micro-interactions, responsive animations. Maintain a high bar of quality matching the world's best consumer products. Make enterprise software feel effortless.
AI: Integrate Intelligence Where It Matters
Integrate LLMs into search, recommendations, and automation where they create real value. Build features that feel magical while maintaining reliability.
Build a killer team with a world-class culture
We're looking for someone who is a natural tinkerer. Wants to architect, code, build, and ship. But is also a natural team builder and wants to expand our team as needed. With AI coding tools, the game has changed and you're a pro at right sizing the organization accordingly.
What We're Looking For
We evaluate fit based on three things: values, abilities, and skills.
Values:
- Passion for driving deeper human connection
- Want to join at the ground level with real traction and build a category-defining company
- You ship fast with low bug rates—velocity and quality aren't tradeoffs
- You care about both system design and delightful UI
- You have strong opinions about how things should be built and the conviction to defend them
- You're obsessed with data models and architecture—you know most technical debt starts with lazy modeling
- Generalist at zero-to-one—you thrive in ambiguity and own large pieces of product
- 3–8 years building consumer-facing products at startups
- Strong Next.js, React, TypeScript, Postgres
- Experience with API design and integrations
- Comfortable with AI/LLM integration
- Strong design instincts and attention to detail in UI work
- Leverage: Proven model, real customers, clear path to category leadership
- Impact: Your work determines whether we scale globally
- Ownership: Meaningful early equity in a company with a clear path to major outcome
In-person in Palo Alto, CA