Founding Engineer
- Salary
- $120K - $250K
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: visa.
Open. First seen 6 November 2026.
About the role
About Dataleap
We raised $3M from YC and angels like Aravind (CEO Perplexity) and Rahul Vohra (Superhuman) to build the agentic operating system for the enterprise. We have thousands of agents deployed across scale-up startups and Fortune 500 companies. We have PMF and are doubling revenue every month. And we have far more enterprise inbound than we can handle.
About the role
We need someone who operates at CTO-level. Someone who can take a vague problem, scope it, build it end-to-end, and ship something that actually provides value. Backend-heavy, AI-native, able to go full stack when needed. No hand-holding. No waiting for specs. You're a full-stack engineer, an AI engineer, and a product engineer in one person. Former founder is a strong plus.
What you'll do
- Own large parts of the product end-to-end, from user insight to production.
- Build and improve our agentic systems. Make them more accurate, more reliable, more powerful.
- Work at the frontier of AI engineering: context engineering, tool use, agent architectures.
- Talk to users. Understand their pain. Scope features that actually solve problems.
- Push AI-first development — Claude Code, coding agents, automation. You should be obsessed with scaling yourself.
- Review code fast and maintain a high bar across the codebase.
Our stack: Go backend, Vite/TypeScript frontend.
You're a fit if
- You're a razor-sharp engineer who solves hard problems fast with the code taste to review PRs at speed without dropping the bar.
- You have deep product sense. You build for users, not for code's sake.
- You love Go and care about clean, maintainable code. Backend-heavy, but not allergic to frontend.
- You've built AI products, ideally agentic systems or AI coding tools.
- You've built something from scratch: a startup, a side project, a feature that shipped. You thrive in ambiguity and don't need a PM to tell you what to build.
AI research background or experience at an AI coding startup is a plus. But what matters most is that you're exceptional and hungry.
What you get
- Work alongside a brilliant design engineer who makes everything look and feel incredible.
- A CTO and cofounder who will push you harder than anyone has before and make you grow faster than you thought possible.
- Unlimited AI budget. We practice what we preach.
- Generous equity and comp reflecting the outsized impact this role will have.
- A seat at the table. This is a founding role, you'll shape the product and the company.
We're building the platform that redefines how people work. If you want to build at the frontier, reach out.
The team: Engineering
This role is one of 4 open in Engineering.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Golang (2 of 4), LLM (2 of 4), SAP (2 of 4), TypeScript (2 of 4)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Founding Engineer posted Jun 22
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) posted Jun 22
- Founding Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) posted Jun 22
From the team and dates on Dataleap's own job board.
Other openings for this role
2 open postings for this role in San Francisco, first posted 2 October 2026. The company is likely hiring for more than one position. None has been taken down and posted again.
- 6 November 2026 – open (this posting)
- 2 October 2026 – open
Salary context
67 other open postings titled Founding Engineer state a salary: median USD 160,000 to USD 250,000 a year.
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