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title: 'Founding Engineer at Vamo'
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type: 'job'
last_seen: '2026-09-08'
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# Founding Engineer at Vamo

- **Company:** Vamo
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2025-08-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/vamo-xyz/am9icG9zdDq3F9Varo5uW_BUR5oSo1ax

## Job description

Founding Software Engineer — San Francisco, CA (in-person)

## About us

Our partner is building a one-person AI marketing service. We went from 0 to $500k ARR in 90 days while in stealth and are now assembling an all-star team to launch and scale.

## The role

Work directly with the CTO to design, build, and scale the world’s first AI-native B2B content generation platform. You will own mission-critical surfaces, ship quickly, and set engineering culture from day one.

## What you’ll do

- Own a core pillar such as web scraping at scale, pipeline optimization, or multimodal/voice AI interfaces
- Create novel AI-native experiences that combine text and video generativity
- Build net-new features and harden them against unexpected user behavior
- Drive ideas end to end: talk to users (if you want), translate needs into designs, and ship

You might be a fit if you have

- Excellence and ambition: you’ve been best-in-class at something and want to be the best in the world
- Unorthodox thinking: you spot non-obvious angles and move faster and smarter because of it
- Dedication: high-tempo work ethic, comfortable working most days alongside a like-minded team
- EQ and agency: you read the room, communicate crisply, and believe you can learn almost anything
- Preference for in-person collaboration in San Francisco

We’re especially excited by people who

- Live in the backend and obsess over performant, scalable systems
- Breathe Figma and care about interaction design as much as implementation
- Built their own scrapers when none existed
- Have dabbled in short-form video creation and enjoy crafting compelling content

Location and setup In-person in San Francisco.

## Compensation

Base salary: $150k–$250k, plus meaningful equity.

How to apply Send a short note and links to shipped work or GitHub to jobs@vamotalent.com. Bonus: include a 3–5 sentence story about a system you owned that you made faster, more reliable, or more delightful for users.

## About Vamo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Vamo is an AI-powered recruiting platform that surfaces top software engineers by analyzing their public GitHub repositories and code quality.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped; no external funding raised as of August 2026)
- **Headquarters**: Remote-first; team distributed across the United States and Brazil
- **Founded**: 2025
- **Founders**: Bolun Li (founder, also founded Zogo)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Recruiting & Talent Sourcing (Technology)
- **Target customers**: B2B – recruiters, hiring managers, CTOs, and startup founders looking to hire engineering talent
- **Mission/purpose**: Shift hiring from pedigree (resumes, LinkedIn profiles) to proof-of-work (real code, projects, and contributions on GitHub). The company’s tagline: “Cracked engineers are not on LinkedIn. They’re on GitHub.”

## Products & Services
- **[Vamo Platform](https://vamotalent.com/how-it-works)**: SaaS tool that indexes 50M+ GitHub profiles, ranks engineers using a proprietary algorithm (stars, followers, community engagement), and allows plain‑language searches (e.g., “someone who built a CRM in Python”). Offers three search types: Archetype, Platform (e.g., Shopify, AWS), and Domain (e.g., fintech, AI). Users can directly contact candidates via GitHub email. Subscription starts at $159/month.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available (bootstrapped, no funding rounds)
- **Customer traction**: ~2,000 customers within the first month of launch (as of early 2026), including companies like Autopilot and Cognition
- **Headcount**: 6 employees (as of mid‑2026), with monthly growth of +25%
- **Key team members**: David Chung (CEO, joined May 2026), Cam Whiteside (CTO, joined July 2026), Ben Thompson (Founding Growth), Gabriel G. (Founding Partnerships Lead)
- **Competitors**: Andela, Shapr, Fetcher (source: [Tracxn](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/vamo/__4goHoyIRUj9MjD7sKUbicrYeYHZq1Ek0YexMaijeVhY))

## Why Work at Vamo
- **Remote‑first culture** with a small, highly collaborative team (currently 6 people)
- **Mission‑driven**: Building the future of talent sourcing by focusing on real code over resumes
- **Early‑stage impact**: Employees have direct influence on product direction and growth
- **Tech stack**: LinkedIn, HTML, GitHub (as listed on LinkedIn)
- **Recent hires**: CTO Cam Whiteside was found using Vamo’s own tool – a strong signal of dogfooding and belief in the product

## Additional Notes
- Vamo is currently tailored for finding engineers; plans exist to expand to other creator roles.
- The company’s LinkedIn page shows a 30% response rate for outreach vs. 1–3% on LinkedIn.
- No careers page was found at the provided Gem URL (likely outdated); current openings are not publicly listed.

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