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title: 'Founding Engineer at Dataleap'
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# Founding Engineer at Dataleap

- **Company:** Dataleap
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/dataleap/1cd35194-ee19-405d-82b7-b08a74cb47a5

## Job description

## 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.

## About Dataleap

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Dataleap builds the Agentic Operating System for enterprises, enabling business teams to create AI employees (agents) without engineering assistance.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage; Y Combinator S24)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has office in Munich, Germany)
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Jan Damm (CEO) and Jan-Hendrik Ruettinger (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / Agentic Automation
- **Target customers**: B2B – tech-forward companies ranging from 2-person startups to 2,000-person unicorns; later expanding to all companies.
- **Mission**: “Make knowledge work at your computer fun” – give non-engineering roles (sales, ops, HR) the same AI superpowers that engineers get with tools like Cursor and Claude Code.

## Products & Services
- **Dataleap Platform**: A cloud-based agentic work platform that lets business users describe tasks in natural language and have autonomous AI agents execute them. Features include:
  - 200+ pre-built integrations with common tools (Confluence, ServiceNow, Okta, etc.)
  - Support for custom HTTP APIs and MCP servers
  - Custom interfaces with action buttons generated from user data
  - Human-in-the-loop approvals, reviews, and handoffs
  - Multi‑model support to choose the best LLM for each task
  - Triggers from app events, schedules, and webhooks

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: **$3M** (announced Feb 4, 2026) – raised exclusively from founders and operators. Previous rounds: $500k pre-seed and $125k seed from Y Combinator.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Harj Taggar), BOOOM VC (Felix Plapperer), Wayfinder (Yuri Sagalov), Founders Inc., Alliance, Ritual Capital, Nomad Capital, Phosphor Capital, Rebel Ventures; angel investors include Aravind Srinivas (Perplexity), Rahul Vohra (Superhuman), Hanno Renner (Personio), and others.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Team size grew from ~5 to 6 employees (+40% yearly LinkedIn growth)
  - 2,208 LinkedIn followers (+61.8% year over year)
  - Active job postings (3 open roles) with monthly increase of +50%
  - Customers ranging from startups to 2,000‑employee unicorns
  - Creating a new category they call **“vibe working”** – blending close AI collaboration with background automation

## Competitive Advantages
- **Agent‑first interface**: No visual workflow builder or long setup (differentiated from tools like n8n and ChatGPT conversational agents).
- **Cloud‑first**: Agents run in the cloud, ensuring knowledge is not lost locally.
- **Enterprise‑ready**: 200+ integrations, human‑in‑the‑loop controls, approvals, and ability to use the best model per task without vendor lock‑in.
- **Crafted experience**: Self‑described as “the Linear of our category” – focused on reliability, ease of use, and virality within organizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Decentralize agent building – give power to domain experts instead of central business automation teams.
- Redefine knowledge work: elevate AI agents from one‑off tasks to persistent background workers.
- Expand from tech‑forward companies to all enterprises.
- Continue building the “agentic operating system” that absorbs and replaces traditional software categories.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Small, agile team (6 people) with a strong mission and high ownership; described as building “the future of work.”
- **Work environment**: Hybrid/office – roles open in San Francisco (HQ) and Munich, Germany.
- **Compensation & equity**: Founding‑level roles with salary ranges:
  - San Francisco: $120K – $250K + 0.20% – 1.00% equity
  - Munich: €90K – €150K + 0.10% – 0.50% equity
- **Notable perks**: Work with YC‑backed team, access to top AI models, and direct impact on product direction. The founders come from Google, BCG, and Oxford AI research.
- **Who they look for**: “Extremely good” individuals who resonate with redefining work – currently hiring Founding Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer (Munich), and Deployment Strategist.

## Sources
1. [dataleap.ai](https://dataleap.ai/)
2. [ycombinator.com – company page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap)
3. [linkedin.com – company page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/dataleap-inc)
4. [dataleap.ai – $3M funding announcement](https://www.dataleap.ai/blog/3m-funding-round)
5. [ycombinator.com – jobs page](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/dataleap/jobs)

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