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Founding Engineer at propolis.tech (New York, NY)
propolis.tech· New York, NY·
Role details
Work type
Onsite
Employment
Full-Time
Job description
About the Role
Propolis is looking for it’s Founding Engineer, who thrives in ambiguity and moves fast. You'll help build our product from the ground up, making critical technical and product decisions that shape our company's future. This isn't a role for someone who needs detailed specs, you'll be making decisions with us on the fly.
What You'll Do
- Ship fast, iterate faster. Build and deploy features daily, not monthly
- Make product decisions alongside technical ones - you'll be in the trenches with us, talking to users and determining roadmap priorities
- Develop AI-first features, experimenting with the latest and greatest in LLMs
What We're Looking For
- First and foremost, drive and an autonomous mindset
- Proven track record of shipping products quickly in startup environments
- AI/ML experience with LLMs, embeddings, or other AI technologies
- Full-stack capabilities across frontend, backend, and infrastructure
- Product intuition and willingness to engage with users directly
- Experimental mindset comfortable with trying novel approaches and learning from failures
Ideal Background
- There isn't one! We care more about the above ^
- Experience with AI development
- Track record of 0-to-1 product development
- Comfortable with ambiguous requirements and changing priorities
What We Offer
- Significant equity stake in a high-growth company
- Competitive salary
- Direct impact on product direction and technical architecture
- Work directly with founders and key stakeholders
About Propolis
Propolis simulates users via swarms of autonomous browser agents that test for you. Automate away your entire QA function.
Why work at propolis.tech
- High-Impact, Fast-Paced Environment: As a recently acquired YC startup, the team operates with a startup ethos—shipping fast, making product decisions on the fly, and having direct impact on the product and technical architecture.
- Cutting-Edge AI Work: Engineers work on the latest LLMs, embeddings, and AI-first features, building autonomous agents that are at the forefront of the AI testing space.
- Work with Founders: The role offers direct collaboration with the founders (Marc Papazian and Matt White), who have deep experience from Palantir and Airtable.
- Location: Based in New York, NY (HQ). The pre-acquisition job posting was for an in-office or hybrid role in NYC.
- Compensation & Equity: Pre-acquisition, the founding engineer role offered a salary of $130k - $200k with significant equity. Post-acquisition, compensation and equity packages would be through Datadog, which is known for competitive total rewards.
- Engineering Culture: Described as a place for those who "thrive in ambiguity and move fast," with an experimental mindset and a focus on 0-to-1 product development.