Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer
Fabrion
The Founding Engineer role at a startup backed by 8VC involves architecting and building a platform that addresses critical infrastructure challenges. This full-time position offers competitive salary and equity, focusing on both backend and frontend development, with opportunities for leadership and significant impact on the tech stack and team culture.
Qualification
- 5+ years as a full stack or backend engineer
- Experience owning and delivering production systems end-to-end
- Prior experience with modern frontend frameworks (React, Next.js)
- Familiarity with building APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, or deployment workflows at scale
- Comfortable working in early-stage startups or autonomous roles, prior experience as a founder, founding engineer, or a 0-1 pre-seed startup is a big plus
Responsibility
- Architect and build scalable APIs, backend services, and web application components
- Contribute across the stack: data pipelines, agents, web UIs, deployment systems
- Design and implement internal tooling, testing frameworks, and CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate closely with product and design to prototype and ship features quickly
- Help define engineering processes, contribute to documentation, and grow the early team
