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title: 'Founding Engineer, Platform at Freckle'
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# Founding Engineer, Platform at Freckle

- **Company:** Freckle
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-26
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/freckle/df1eda8c-d759-4b70-b0c4-02ddc6251b28

## Job description

## About Freckle

Freckle is the data and workflow layer for GTM teams. Users tell an agent in Claude, Codex or our app what they want, and Freckle builds and runs it: pulling lists, enriching them across dozens of data providers, scoring with AI agents, and writing results back to the CRM. We compete head to head with Clay and win, and Series A+ teams like [Bolt.new](http://Bolt.new) run their GTM on us.

## The role

You own the engine that runs every customer workflow: scheduling, queues, retries, provider integrations, and cost and reliability at scale. When a paying customer's run fails, it's your system and your fix. You'll be one of the first engineers and shape how the platform is built from here.

## What you'll do

- Own the workflow engine: scheduling, batching, idempotency, cancelling and retrying runs
- Build and harden integrations with dozens of data providers: rate limits, concurrency, failures, cost per call
- Make failures visible and cheap to fix: observability, alerting, cost per run
- Scale Postgres and Redis as volume grows
- Use coding agents heavily and own the judgment on what they produce

You might be a fit if you

- Have built job systems, queues or data pipelines that ran in production at real volume
- Treat reliability and cost as product features
- Are pragmatic and autonomous, and don't need a curated task board

Bonus: Effect or functional TypeScript, high-volume data infrastructure, or an early-stage startup behind you. Stack: TypeScript and Effect end to end, Postgres, Redis, React with Vite and TanStack, ElectricSQL sync Benefits: generous equity; health benefits for you and dependents Freckle is an equal opportunity employer.

## About Freckle

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Freckle is an AI-powered data enrichment and research platform that helps B2B go-to-market teams clean, enrich, and manage lead lists using natural language and AI agents.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed-stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Nathan Merzvinskis (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Go-to-Market Data Enrichment & AI-Powered Research (Software Development)
- **Target Customers**: B2B companies, specifically RevOps, Sales, Marketing, and Growth teams. Also used by investors and talent acquisition teams.
- **Mission/Purpose**: To make GTM data enrichment easy and accessible for any team, enabling them to unlock their best outbound campaigns.

## Products & Services
- **Freckle Platform**: An AI-native SaaS platform that sits on top of CRMs (HubSpot, Salesforce). Users can describe data points in natural language, and AI agents search the web and 40+ data providers to enrich company and contact records. Key features include:
    - **AI Research Agents**: Automate manual research (e.g., checking if a company is hiring, finding pricing tiers).
    - **Waterfall Enrichments**: Access to 40+ data providers for email, phone, and LinkedIn URL verification.
    - **Custom ICP & Lead Scoring**: Describe ICP in plain English for AI-powered lead scoring.
    - **Pre-built Templates**: Library of prompts for common enrichment and cleanup actions.
    - **Spreadsheet-style Interface**: Allows users to manipulate and clean data before syncing back to the CRM.
    - **CRM Integrations**: Native integrations with HubSpot and Salesforce, plus webhooks and Zapier.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric (Funding)**: **$5.9M in total funding**.
    - Seed Round (Oct 2025): **$4.0M** led by Gradient and 1984 Ventures.
    - Pre-Seed Round (Dec 2024): **$1.9M** led by Asymmetric Capital Partners.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gradient (Google’s AI-focused venture fund), 1984 Ventures, Asymmetric Capital Partners.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - **+160% YoY headcount growth** (reaching 13 employees).
    - **+187.6% YoY LinkedIn follower growth** (over 4,000 followers).
    - Clients include Bolt, Applause, Sleekflow, Knowify, and Optimal Workshop.
    - Directly positions itself as the more user-friendly alternative to Clay.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Usability-First Design**: Intentionally built for non-technical users who find competitors like Clay too complex. Setup is in minutes, no dedicated admin required.
- **AI-Native Approach**: Uses AI agents to handle research and enrichment, moving beyond rigid firmographics to answer any data point in natural language.
- **Data Resilience**: Can enrich records even with incomplete data (e.g., just a personal email), unlike tools that require a work email or website.
- **Unified Provider Access**: Aggregates 40+ data providers into a single subscription, eliminating the need for separate contracts.
- **Unlimited Users**: Both Free and Pro plans allow unlimited users, removing per-seat friction.

## Strategic Focus
- **Democratizing GTM Data**: Freckle’s core strategy is to win the "non-technical" market share that competitor Clay is too complex for.
- **AI-First Automation**: Deepening AI agent capabilities to replace manual research tasks for RevOps, SDRs, and marketing teams.
- **CRM Deep Integration**: Focus on being the enrichment layer that sits directly on top of HubSpot and Salesforce, keeping CRMs as the single source of truth.
- **Scaling the Team**: With fresh seed funding, the company is actively hiring to expand its engineering, growth, and operations teams.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: A young, well-funded startup (Seed, $5.9M) with strong YoY headcount and follower growth, indicating strong product-market fit and momentum.
- **Hybrid Workspace**: Based in San Francisco with a hybrid work policy, plus team members in India, Australia, and Israel.
- **Tackling a Hard Problem**: Working on the intersection of AI, data, and GTM, directly competing with a category leader (Clay) by solving a real usability problem.
- **Small, Impactful Team**: With ~13 employees, new hires will have significant ownership and impact across engineering, product, and GTM functions.
- **Strong Backing**: Backed by Gradient (Google’s AI fund) and 1984 Ventures, providing both capital and strategic support.

## Sources
1. [freckle.io](https://www.freckle.io/)
2. [LinkedIn - Freckle.io](https://www.linkedin.com/company/freckleio)
3. [Built In - Freckle.io](https://builtin.com/company/freckle-io)
4. [Jobs.ashbyhq.com - Freckle](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/freckle)

## Other roles at Freckle

- [Founding Engineer, Product](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-engineer-product-freckle-san-francisco-qnzw8zsm40ja) — San Francisco, CA