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SignalFire

www.signalfire.com
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  • 🇺🇸 United States
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Founding Engineer - VC Backed Startups

**A Unique Opportunity to Join SignalFire’s Portfolio of Top-Tier Startups
** At SignalFire, we partner with the most promising early-stage startups shaping the future of technology. Our portfolio spans over 200+ groundbreaking companies, including well-known names like Grammarly , Uber , Ro , and Color Genomics. We focus on B2B and enterprise markets, with investments across healthtech , cybersecurity , developer tools and infrastructure , fintech , legaltech , edtech , and vertical SaaS and AI.

We are seeking exceptional Founding Engineers (Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack) to join our portfolio companies as **** early team members. You’ll work directly with visionary founders and SignalFire’s Talent team to build transformative products. This is a blanket application and a chance to access opportunities across a wide range of VC-backed startups—our team and startup founders will review your application and reach out if there’s a match.

Please Note: These are full-time opportunities directly with portfolio startups themselves, not through SignalFire.

What You’ll Do:

  • Design, build, and maintain full-stack applications, from intuitive front-end interfaces to scalable back-end systems.

  • Develop APIs, microservices, and cloud-based architectures to power innovative products.

  • Collaborate closely with founders to define technical strategy and align it with business goals.

  • Contribute to the technical roadmap, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.

  • Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code across the stack.

  • Help shape the culture of the engineering team, establishing best practices for software development.

What You Bring:

  • 3+ years of experience as a full-stack engineer, with a proven track record of shipping high-quality products.

  • Proficiency with modern front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or Vue.js) and back-end frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Django, Flask, or Ruby on Rails).

  • Strong understanding of cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure, and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.

  • Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, DynamoDB).

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools.

  • Proficiency in common programming languages such as JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, Go, or TypeScript.

  • Passion for solving complex technical challenges and building products that scale.

  • Experience in early-stage environments or lean teams is a plus.

Technologies You’ll Work With:

  • Programming Languages: JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, Go, Java.

  • Front-End: React, Angular, Vue.js, Svelte.

  • Back-End: Node.js, Django, Flask, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI.

  • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis.

  • Cloud Platforms: AWS (Lambda, EC2, S3, RDS), GCP (App Engine, Firestore), Azure.

  • DevOps & Deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.

  • Other Tools: GraphQL, REST APIs, WebSockets, Elasticsearch.

Compensation Range: $160K - $240K