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title: 'Desktop Engineer at Town.com, Inc.'
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# Desktop Engineer at Town.com, Inc.

- **Company:** Town.com, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/town/498e1f18-f359-4adb-ad20-9a0a0a0113cf

## Job description

## ABOUT TOWN

We're an applied AI company building a powerful assistant that makes it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work. Town starts from who you are — it builds a persistent model of you (your voice, judgment, relationships, priorities) and does real work on your behalf across every tool you use: email, calendar, docs, Slack, CRM. It doesn't wait to be prompted. It observes, learns, and acts.

We most recently raised a $55M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and continued support from First Round Capital, Alt Capital, and Conviction — plus angels including Adam D'Angelo, Soleio Cuervo, and Immad Akhund.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Town is most powerful when it's ambient — always there, aware of what you're working on, one keystroke away. The native macOS app is how that happens. We're looking for a Desktop Engineer to own Town's macOS client: a fast, deeply-integrated, always-on app that lives in your menu bar, understands the context around you, and acts the moment you need it.

You'll own the native client end to end — architecture, OS integration, performance, and the release pipeline — and set the craft bar for what a Town desktop experience feels like. The bar is someone who has shipped a real Mac app that people loved to use, and sweats the details that make native software feel effortless.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Build and own Town's native macOS app in Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit — architecture, features, and polish.
- Go deep on the OS: menu-bar and background agents, global shortcuts, notifications, EventKit, and the Accessibility APIs that let Town understand and act across other apps.
- Make an always-on client that's genuinely fast and light — low memory, low battery, no jank.
- Own the release pipeline: code signing, notarization, sandboxing/entitlements, crash reporting, and seamless auto-update.
- Handle sensitive user data on-device with the security and privacy it deserves, in partnership with our security work.
- Work closely with the backend and AI teams to bring Town's agent to the desktop natively.
- Set the craft and performance bar for the desktop experience — and lay the groundwork for future platforms.

YOU MIGHT THRIVE HERE IF YOU...

- Have extensive experience building native macOS (and/or iOS) applications, with depth in Swift.
- Are fluent in both AppKit and SwiftUI and know when to reach for each.
- Have worked below the UI layer: OS-level APIs, background processes, IPC/XPC, notifications, accessibility.
- Care about performance and polish
- Have shipped and owned a Mac app end to end, including signing, notarization, and updates.
- Want to own a product surface from zero and move at startup speed doing it.

## LOCATION

In-person in San Francisco's Financial District, five days a week. Everyone is here to do their best work and make this product a success.

## About Town.com, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: An applied AI company building a proactive, persistent AI assistant that learns how you work and acts on your behalf across email, calendar, docs, Slack, and CRM.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jean-Denis Greze (CEO, former CTO of Plaid) and Tony Vincent (CPO, former Director of Applied AI at Google)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software, Productivity
- **Target customers**: B2B (SMB to mid-market teams looking to automate knowledge work)
- **Mission**: "Make it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work." — Town careers page

## Products & Services
- **[Town AI]**: A SaaS assistant that builds a persistent model of a user’s voice, judgment, relationships, and priorities. It observes, learns, and acts without waiting for prompts — triaging inbox, managing schedules, running workflows, and generating drafts. Replaces general-purpose chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude for daily work.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$73M** (Seed $18M + Series A $55M) — some sources report $78.1M, likely including a smaller prior round or adjusted amount.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Series A led by **Andreessen Horowitz** with participation from **Forerunner Ventures**, **First Round Capital**, **Alt Capital**, and **Conviction**. Seed led by **First Round Capital**. Angel investors include Adam D’Angelo, Soleio Cuervo, and Immad Akhund.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **82.4% year-over-year** (LinkedIn, 2026). Currently **13–31 employees** depending on source. Early customers report replacing Claude, ChatGPT, and “OpenClaw” with Town because it “actually understands them.” The company was founded in 2024 and closed a $55M Series A in May 2026, signaling strong investor confidence.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proactive persistence**: Town builds a model of the user’s preferences and takes action without explicit prompting — a deeper “memory” than chat-only AIs.
- **Deep tool integration**: Connects to email, calendar, Slack, CRM, and docs, acting across all of them.
- **Founder pedigree**: CEO scaled Plaid from $10M to $300M+ ARR; CPO co-founded a company acquired by Google and another by Dropbox.
- **Early traction**: Customers report preferring Town over leading competitors for daily work.

## Strategic Focus
- Aggressively building out the product and team in 2026 (5 open roles across engineering, product, design, business operations, and marketing).
- Scaling from early adopters to a broader SMB/mid-market audience.
- Continuing to iterate on the “persistent AI assistant” paradigm.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Action first. Chat second.” Principles include owning outcomes, making decisions with 70% information, and debating hard with ego aside.
- **Work environment**: Fully in‑person, five days a week in San Francisco’s Financial District. Early‑stage (one of first ~20 teammates) means high impact and ownership.
- **Compensation**: AI Product Engineer $225K–$300K, Staff Backend Engineer $250K–$300K, Business Operations $130K–$170K, Product Marketing $150K–$200K — all with competitive equity.
- **Benefits**: Fully covered medical, dental & vision; unlimited PTO; free daily lunch; commuter benefits; parental leave; 401(k).
- **Team**: Engineers and operators from Plaid, Apple, Facebook, Stripe, Lyft, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, HubSpot, Quora, and Asana.

## Sources
1. [town.com/careers](https://town.com/careers)  
2. [LinkedIn – Town](https://www.linkedin.com/company/town-com)  
3. [PrivCo – Town.com, Inc.](https://www.privco.com/company/town)  
4. [Tracxn – Town](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/town/__IJxZtewAmsdD7JiOf5kkZuPMNKxlPULw5YtJqhKYrtI)  
5. [Ashby Careers – Business Operations](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/town/52ff57cf-4e1f-4244-8504-92a52ef0dd9c)

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