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Founding Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Social AI Startup

Skyrocket Ventures
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/4/2026

Founding Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Social AI Startup


San Francisco, CA (you can work from home up to 3 days/week)



The company’s agentic AI system facilitates real-life social connections.


The company has raised $10 million in seed funding from top VCs.


The company has 8 employees and 3 engineers and is rapidly growing; they expect to reach 20 employees in the next 6 months.


The company will pay very competitive salary. They actually are open to a salary as high as $600k, however candidates should expect that whatever salary they can get at this company would be much less cash than what they could be getting at big tech companies. The focus of the compensation package would be the equity which could be very lucrative.



Job Responsibilities:


- Owning the development of new customer-facing social networking features.


- Depending on your preference you could work anywhere from 100% backend to full stack to 100% front end.


- Collaborating with product designers and leadership to create cutting-edge products.


- Building internal tools for the team as well as for AI.


- Optimizing applications for speed and scale.



Qualifications:


- Relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies.


- Proficiency with fundamental data structures and algorithms.


- Either A) Proficiency with TypeScript, React, Next.js and/or other web technologies, or B) Interested and able to learn our tech stack quickly, and having proficiency with other languages and frameworks.



Nice to have:


- Experience with microservice architecture using a variety of infrastructure services such as RabbitMQ.


- Experience with non-relational databases such as MongoDB and Redis.


- Experience with AI/ML pipelines.


- Ability to move fast in an environment where things are sometimes loosely defined and may have competing priorities or deadlines.


- Proficiency with Node.js, React, TypeScript, and Next.js





About Skyrocket Ventures



Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S.



Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general.



Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us.



After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you.



Thank you, and we wish you a great job search!

Salary : $600,000

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