Founding Engineer at Replo (San Francisco, CA)

Replo· San Francisco, CA· $180k–$350k·6d ago

Role details

Salary

$180k–$350k

Employment

Full-Time

Equity

Yes

Job description

Hiring a full-stack/founding engineers to join our team and focused on product engineering and shipping new features

Architecting and implementing full-stack product features in Typescript/React/Node is the core of what you’ll be doing. Real examples include —

Platform

Building sandbox infrastructure for our agents (managing secrets, proxies, and compute)
Building an eval framework for our models
Launching an analytics platform on ClickHouse/MSK that consumes millions of events per day
Building an agentic workflow orchestration architecture
Building a public API for Replo/Slack bots
Overhauling our billing system to support arbitrary usage-based billing

Programs

Can be in office 4-5 days/week in San Francisco
Is proficient in Typescript/React/Node
Uses Cursor/Claude Code to accelerate their work
Has built products 0 -> 1 with real users and revenue
Is OK operating independently without product/design
Is ALWAYS SHIPPING. We don't spend weeks planning features at Replo
Has a product and customer-focused mindset
Has experience being burned by deployment and maintenance issues. If you have a a strong opinion on how products should be built, that’s good
Values writing clean, maintainable software, including documentation (e.g. the code needs to be correct and run fast, but we’re the ones that have to read it and understand it)
Is comfortable with ambiguity and defining software architecture patterns to solve customer pain points

Have a CS degree or formal computer science/STEM backend
Have started a company before
Enjoy attending hackathons
Worked at an early-stage (Series A or earlier) startup previously
Have not wasted hours interview-prepping on Leetcode
Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc).

Culture & Work Style: Described as a lean team of ex-founders, hackers, and product-focused people who value scrappiness, intellectual curiosity, and a “hunger to win.” Emphasis is on solving problems with limited resources and high speed.
Benefits:
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Visa assistance
- Commuter benefits
- Work-from-home (WFH) stipend
- Free lunch & dinners
- AI & Learning stipend
Work Location: Headquartered near Union Square in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid/office presence. Roles listed are specific to San Francisco.
Engineering & Impact: Opportunities to work across the full stack (React, TypeScript, Python, Django, Shopify, LLMs) with a focus on building AI-driven products. The team is small, offering high ownership and impact.

One-liner: Replo is an AI-powered visual content management system (CMS) and landing page builder that helps ecommerce brands, particularly on Shopify, create high-converting campaigns and storefronts without code.
Entity Type: Private (Startup, Seed Stage)
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States
Founded: 2021
Founders: Yuxin Zhu (Co-Founder & CEO) and Noah Gilmore (Co-Founder & CTO)

Primary Industry: E-commerce Technology / Software Development
Target Customers: B2B – Ecommerce brands, online stores, and direct-to-consumer businesses using Shopify and other platforms.
Mission/Purpose: To empower anyone to turn an idea into something they can sell online—in minutes, leveraging AI to automate design, marketing, and analytics.

Replo Platform (AI Builder & CMS): A visual, no-code CMS that integrates with the Shopify theme editor. It allows users to build landing pages, ad creative, and entire marketing campaigns from text, images, URLs, or ideas. The platform includes built-in templates, drag-and-drop editing, and analytics to track performance.
AI-Powered Campaign Generation: The platform can automatically design and launch a shop and marketing campaign based on a user’s product description, including copywriting and ad creation, with data-driven recommendations for optimization.

Valuation/Market Cap: Not publicly disclosed.
Total Funding: $8.2 million (as of latest reports; earlier $4.2M Seed round confirmed).
Key Investors: Figma, Y Combinator (S21 batch), Vercel, General Catalyst, Infinity Ventures, MAGIC Fund, Base Case Capital.
Growth Signals:
- Grew from 5 to over 3,000+ customers in less than 18 months.
- Headcount of 61 employees (+11.6% YoY growth).
- Active job postings increased by 275% year-over-year.
- High website traffic (over 227,000 monthly visits) with strong engagement (4.4 pages per visit).

AI-Native E-commerce Platform: Differentiates from traditional e-commerce builders (like Squarespace or basic Shopify tools) by automating the entire campaign lifecycle—design, copy, and analysis—with AI.
Deep Shopify Integration: Operates directly within the Shopify theme editor, providing a seamless experience for existing Shopify merchants.
Powerful Backer Network: Backed by a consortium of top-tier investors and strategic partners including Figma, Y Combinator, and Vercel, providing significant network and growth advantages.
High Customer Traction: Rapid customer acquisition (3,000+ in 18 months) demonstrates strong product-market fit and product-led growth.

Product Expansion: Building the “commerce platform for the AI age,” with a focus on making AI a core part of the ecommerce workflow—from creation to optimization.
Team Scaling: Actively hiring across engineering, customer success, and operations to support rapid growth, with a focus on building a lean, scrappy, and high-output team.
Global Reach: Already operating in 10 countries with a distributed workforce, signaling an intent to scale beyond the US market.

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