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Founding Engineer

Cenna
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 9/4/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/3/2026
About The Role

As a Founding Engineer at Cenna, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our cutting-edge agentic services platform. Working across the entire stack, you will design, build, and deploy core features, driving the technical vision of our AI-powered products from inception to scale.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and develop innovative features for our agentic services platform
  • Create seamless, responsive user interfaces using modern frontend frameworks
  • Build scalable, secure backend services and APIs to power platform functionality
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define system architecture and AI-driven solution standards
  • Conduct code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and promote engineering best practices
  • Partner with product management to translate requirements into impactful solutions

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
  • 5 years of software engineering experience, preferably in startup settings
  • Strong skills in programming languages like Java, Python, or JavaScript
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Experience with modern software development practices and CI/CD tools
  • Excellent collaboration and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

  • Familiarity with AI/ML technologies or agentic systems
  • Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud infrastructure
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Contributions to open-source projects
  • Prior experience thriving in a fast-paced startup environment

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