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Founding Engineer at Caddy (New York, NY)
Caddy· New York, NY· $120k–$180k·
Role details
Salary
$120k–$180k
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
Founding Engineer You’ll be our second engineer, working directly with Caddy’s founders on core architecture, product direction, and execution. If you’re excited about real-time systems, agentic workflows, and building a product you’ll use every day, you’ll have outsized impact here. You will own large, ambiguous problems end-to-end: from choosing the approach to shipping new features, operating them in production, and iterating based on user feedback. We work in person out of our SoHo office.
What we’re looking for
- Obsessed with building a product that not only our users love, but that you love and want to use every day
- Can make and defend thoughtful product and technical tradeoffs
- Thrive in ambiguity and default to ownership
- Care about correctness, performance, and user experience
- Move fast and with intention
- Strong opinions, loosely held
What you’ll do
- Own core systems for real-time voice → intent → action workflows
- Design APIs/services for long-running, stateful agent tasks
- Ship user-facing features with strong quality and polish
- Improve reliability, observability, and performance as we scale
- Help set product direction and company culture as the team grows
Our tech stack Our tech stack is pragmatic and evolving. We care more about strong fundamentals than specific tools.
- TypeScript (required)
- Swift, Objective-C (bonus)
Why work at Caddy
- Mission-Driven: Solving a real pain point for millions of small business owners who need to appear professional without enterprise overhead.
- Product Impact: Working on a high-rated, AI-powered product with clear user love (4.8 stars).
- Modern Tech Stack: Likely focused on AI/ML for the receptionist feature, iOS development, and backend services.
- Remote/Hybrid: Not explicitly stated, but as a product of 800.com, the culture likely supports remote work common in the MarTech/SaaS space.
- Culture Highlights: The company emphasizes user experience, simplicity, and empowering the “solopreneur” economy. It’s a small, focused team where individual contributions have outsized impact.