Senior Technical Lead

We're hiring our founding technical hire — a Senior Technical Lead who will own the entire technical vision and execution.

This is a co-builder role, not a cog-in-machine role.What You'll Own:- Designing and building custom AI implementations for SMB clients — from discovery through deployment - Integrations across the platforms our clients already use (Toast, Square, Mindbody, QuickBooks, HubSpot) - Our AI tooling stack (Claude API, Make.com, Clay) and the internal systems that power delivery - Ongoing maintenance, optimization, and evolution of client AI systems - Client-facing portal and delivery infrastructure - Technical hiring as we scale What We're Looking For:- 8+ years of engineering experience shipping real SaaS products - AI-native workflow: Cursor, Claude API, Make.com are daily tools, not experiments - Led a small team.

You think in business outcomes, not just code - Former founding engineer or technical co-founder is a strong signal - Comfortable with ambiguity. You build the plane while flying it.

Compensation:- $160,000 - $200,000 base salary - 4.5% equity (founding-level) - Fully remote, US-based How to Apply: Send your background, what you've built, and why this role fits to [email protected] does that feel?

Once you're happy with it I'll update everything — Wellfound live posting, the Battle Kit doc, and the email to Josh. We're hiring our founding technical hire — a Senior Technical Lead who will own the entire technical vision and execution.

This is a co-builder role, not a cog-in-machine role. This is an application-layer engineering role.

You'll be building AI-powered tools that solve real business problems for real operators — not managing GPU clusters, optimizing inference pipelines, or scaling cloud infrastructure.

If you get more excited connecting QuickBooks to an AI agent that saves a business owner 10 hours a week than you do tuning Kubernetes configs, keep reading.