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Founding Engineer jobs are open across fintech, healthtech, enterprise SaaS, and consumer tech, from early-career engineers who want outsized ownership to senior and staff-level builders, with specializations in backend systems, full-stack product development, and infrastructure. Find a role that fits from the openings below and apply directly.
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About Dealops
We’re building the revenue infrastructure the next decade of B2B AI companies run on by starting with the most critical part in the revenue journey, deal pricing. Today, sales reps spend hours building their own pricing spreadsheets for each deal, only to discount too much and spend another cycle iterating with Finance. This is a massive problem for B2B companies, as we’ve seen up to 30% unnecessary overdiscounting with customers. Our founder saw this firsthand when she worked in finance and pricing at Stripe, where she has priced over a thousand deals with the sales org. This problem exists because pricing is a black box. Sales teams aren’t trained to make pricing decisions and aren’t incentivized to optimize for long-term revenue. As pricing models become more complex due to AI and the shift toward usage-based, outcome-based, and hybrid models, this challenge is only compounding. There’s a massive opportunity to build the revenue infrastructure for next-generation companies. We’re positioned to lead this market shift as teams are finding out previous solutions are breaking down. That’s why the fastest growing enterprises and AI startups like Airwallex, Plaid, Harvey, LangChain, and Clay are partnering with us to build the foundations of their revenue infrastructure. Backed by $7M from General Catalyst, Pear VC, and executives from OpenAI, Stripe, Slack, and more, we’re now focused on growing revenue 10x and shaping the future of deal pricing.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team and help build the next-gen AI-powered platform for revenue optimization. You'll work across the full stack -- from our core deal pricing product to the tools that help customers optimize their revenue strategies with data-driven insights. We're a small team, so you'll have plenty of room to fully own high-impact products from day one.
First 3 months
- Develop key features for deal pricing and packaging recommendations, blending machine learning with a rule-based engine to optimize pricing.
- Design and run A/B pricing experiments that directly move customer revenue — past experiments have yielded a 10–20% boost. (Dealops is the first to let companies A/B test rep behavior at scale.)
- Collect and integrate customer feedback to drive iterative improvement and product-market fit.
By 6 months
- Build agents that process unstructured, natural-language data to further sharpen our pricing and packaging recommendations.
- Spearhead infrastructure and tooling for admin users, enabling infinite customization through natural language and LLMs which cuts customer onboarding time by 10x.
- Contribute to the future product roadmap and our long-term vision of becoming an end-to-end sales optimization platform.
By 9 months
- Own an entire product or product feature suite, from design through implementation and keep innovating. Like everyone on the team, you'll also pitch in on customer onboarding and support, and plan and lead projects end-to-end.
What Excites Us
- 4+ years of software development experience, with a strong full-stack focus (senior preferred; strong mid-level welcome).
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and SQL (PostgreSQL or similar).
- A track record of building and launching scalable, reliable products in close collaboration with designers and other cross-functional partners.
- Experience with complex products that have high reliability and accuracy requirements, ideally in a fast-moving environment.
- Bonus: experience with Tailwind, Express, machine learning, prompt engineering / AI tooling, or previously leading a tech team.
What Excites You
- Tackle complex, high-impact challenges. Turning pricing from an art into a science is a technically hard, high-stakes problem with enormous room for innovation. AI is at the core of our vision — this year we're building agents that automatically generate quotes for reps and assist managers with approval flows, and that's just the beginning.
- High ownership and influence. As an early engineer, you'll own large pieces of the product and infrastructure from day one. Your work will shape both our tech stack and our broader product vision, and you'll make genuinely strategic decisions about how pricing software evolves.
- Fast-paced career growth and leadership. Startups mean accelerated growth. Whether you want to step into a tech lead role, drive product innovation, or architect major systems, you'll be positioned to take on leadership as we scale.
- Shape company culture. As an early hire, you won't just build the product — you'll help define how we work and what we value. This is a chance to create something special, technically and culturally.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation: $140k–$180k base salary
- Generous early-stage equity package
- Unlimited PTO
- Free meals - lunch and dinner on us.
- Free ubers for late nights worked in the office
- Full health coverage
- Flexible remote time
- 401K
- Significant ownership and autonomy
- The chance to work on cutting-edge AI applications in enterprise software
Compensation Range: $140K - $180K
About Dealops
We’re building the revenue infrastructure the next decade of B2B AI companies run on by starting with the most critical part in the revenue journey, deal pricing. Today, sales reps spend hours building their own pricing spreadsheets for each deal, only to discount too much and spend another cycle iterating with Finance. This is a massive problem for B2B companies, as we’ve seen up to 30% unnecessary overdiscounting with customers. Our founder saw this firsthand when she worked in finance and pricing at Stripe, where she has priced over a thousand deals with the sales org. This problem exists because pricing is a black box. Sales teams aren’t trained to make pricing decisions and aren’t incentivized to optimize for long-term revenue. As pricing models become more complex due to AI and the shift toward usage-based, outcome-based, and hybrid models, this challenge is only compounding. There’s a massive opportunity to build the revenue infrastructure for next-generation companies. We’re positioned to lead this market shift as teams are finding out previous solutions are breaking down. That’s why the fastest growing enterprises and AI startups like Airwallex, Plaid, Harvey, LangChain, and Clay are partnering with us to build the foundations of their revenue infrastructure. Backed by $7M from General Catalyst, Pear VC, and executives from OpenAI, Stripe, Slack, and more, we’re now focused on growing revenue 10x and shaping the future of deal pricing.
The Role
We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing engineering team and help build the next-gen AI-powered platform for revenue optimization. You'll work across the full stack -- from our core deal pricing product to the tools that help customers optimize their revenue strategies with data-driven insights. We're a small team, so you'll have plenty of room to fully own high-impact products from day one.
First 3 months
- Develop key features for deal pricing and packaging recommendations, blending machine learning with a rule-based engine to optimize pricing.
- Design and run A/B pricing experiments that directly move customer revenue — past experiments have yielded a 10–20% boost. (Dealops is the first to let companies A/B test rep behavior at scale.)
- Collect and integrate customer feedback to drive iterative improvement and product-market fit.
By 6 months
- Build agents that process unstructured, natural-language data to further sharpen our pricing and packaging recommendations.
- Spearhead infrastructure and tooling for admin users, enabling infinite customization through natural language and LLMs which cuts customer onboarding time by 10x.
- Contribute to the future product roadmap and our long-term vision of becoming an end-to-end sales optimization platform.
By 9 months
- Own an entire product or product feature suite, from design through implementation and keep innovating. Like everyone on the team, you'll also pitch in on customer onboarding and support, and plan and lead projects end-to-end.
What Excites Us
- 4+ years of software development experience, with a strong full-stack focus (senior preferred; strong mid-level welcome).
- Proficiency in React, TypeScript, and SQL (PostgreSQL or similar).
- A track record of building and launching scalable, reliable products in close collaboration with designers and other cross-functional partners.
- Experience with complex products that have high reliability and accuracy requirements, ideally in a fast-moving environment.
- Bonus: experience with Tailwind, Express, machine learning, prompt engineering / AI tooling, or previously leading a tech team.
What Excites You
- Tackle complex, high-impact challenges. Turning pricing from an art into a science is a technically hard, high-stakes problem with enormous room for innovation. AI is at the core of our vision — this year we're building agents that automatically generate quotes for reps and assist managers with approval flows, and that's just the beginning.
- High ownership and influence. As an early engineer, you'll own large pieces of the product and infrastructure from day one. Your work will shape both our tech stack and our broader product vision, and you'll make genuinely strategic decisions about how pricing software evolves.
- Fast-paced career growth and leadership. Startups mean accelerated growth. Whether you want to step into a tech lead role, drive product innovation, or architect major systems, you'll be positioned to take on leadership as we scale.
- Shape company culture. As an early hire, you won't just build the product — you'll help define how we work and what we value. This is a chance to create something special, technically and culturally.
What we offer
- Competitive compensation: $140k–$180k base salary
- Generous early-stage equity package
- Unlimited PTO
- Free meals - lunch and dinner on us.
- Free ubers for late nights worked in the office
- Full health coverage
- Flexible remote time
- 401K
- Significant ownership and autonomy
- The chance to work on cutting-edge AI applications in enterprise software
Compensation Range: $140K - $180K
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A snapshot from current openings nationwide, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
- Solstice Health3
- Meridian Institute2
- Mulligan Funding2
- New American Funding2
- Sample Healthcare2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software10
- Banking & Financial Services4
- Consulting & Professional Services1
- Education1
- Hospitality & Tourism1
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in founding engineer jobs.
- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack or backend depth
- Demonstrated ability to ship production systems with minimal oversight or team support
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or Rust
- Experience designing and owning cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Comfort operating across the stack including APIs, databases, and frontend surfaces
- Prior experience at a startup, as a technical co-founder, or in a seed- to early-stage environment
Tips for Your Founding Engineer Job Search
Show your zero-to-one build history
Founding engineer roles reward candidates who can demonstrate they have built something from scratch, not just maintained an existing codebase. Your resume should name the product, the stage it was at when you joined, and the technical decisions you owned.
Highlight decisions, not just deliverables
Hiring teams at early-stage companies care more about your architectural judgment than your ticket count. For each role on your resume, call out one or two technical choices you made and the tradeoffs you weighed, not just what shipped.
Target companies by headcount and funding stage
Founding engineer openings at seed-stage companies expect you to set technical direction alone, while Series A and B roles usually mean joining a two- to five-person team. Filter by stage so you apply to environments that match how you want to work.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists founding engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a system design answer using your own work
Early-stage companies skip generic system design prompts and ask you to walk through something you have actually built. Before your interview, prepare a tight ten-minute explanation of one past system, its constraints, and what you would do differently now.
Negotiate equity terms alongside the offer
Compensation at founding-engineer level often includes a meaningful equity stake, and the cliff, vesting schedule, and option type matter as much as the grant size. Ask for the cap table, the last 409A valuation, and the strike price before you accept.
Founding Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most founding engineers?
The companies hiring the most founding engineers right now include Solstice Health, Meridian Institute, and Mulligan Funding, with the largest share of openings in California, New York, and Ohio, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Demand is concentrated at seed- and Series A-stage startups building in fintech, healthtech, and developer tooling.
How many founding engineer jobs are remote?
About 18% of founding engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of June 2026, making it one of the more location-flexible senior technical roles available. Backend-focused and infrastructure-heavy positions tend to have the highest remote share, while roles that require close collaboration with a founding design or product team are more often in-person.
How do you become a founding engineer?
Becoming a founding engineer typically means building a record of shipping production systems independently, making architectural decisions under ambiguity, and working at an early-stage company or in a zero-to-one capacity at a larger one. Most people arrive through a combination of startup experience, strong open-source contributions, or a role that gave them ownership of a product surface from the ground up.
Can you get hired as a founding engineer with little experience?
Some early-stage founders hire engineers with limited professional experience if they can show they have built and shipped something real, whether a side project, an open-source tool, or a contract product. The practical path is to have something running in production you can walk through in detail, because founding engineer interviews almost always involve explaining a system you owned, not solving abstract puzzles.
What does the founding engineer interview process look like?
The founding engineer interview process usually starts with a founder or CTO conversation about your past work and how you think about building products, followed by a technical deep-dive into a system you have shipped. Many companies skip traditional whiteboard exercises in favor of a take-home or pair-programming session, and the final stage almost always involves a discussion about equity, company direction, and how you would approach the first months on the job.
Where can I find and apply to founding engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to founding engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from companies across the United States. Search the listings to find roles that match your background and preferred stage, then apply directly to each one that fits.
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