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# Founding Full-Stack Engineer at Sunset

- **Company:** Sunset
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2024-02-21
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-16
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/sunsethq-com/am9icG9zdDpoH86g8XGq610iwFaXpO8A

## Job description

About us: Sunset helps tech startups shut down. We’re the 1-stop shop for dissolutions, helping founders with all legal, accounting, and operational aspects that go into winding down.

Since coming out of stealth, we’ve helped dozens of vc-backed startups shut down, generated hundreds of thousands in revenue, and have raised $1.5M from some of the world’s best entrepreneurs (Ryan Hoover, Hiten Shah, Sahil Lavingia, Codie Sanchez, Justin Mares, Lenny Rachitsky, Charles Hudson, Roger Lee, Eric Bahn, and many more).

We are looking for a Full-Stack Engineer to join our founding team to help further automate the dissolution process. We want to bring somebody on board who is passionate about the startup ecosystem and enjoys working in a variety of different disciplines (LegalTech, FinTech, Automations, etc.).

About you:

- You have 5+ years of experience working as a full-stack engineer.
- You love shipping good products.
- You have excellent command of at least one of the mainstream programming languages.
- You are comfortable working in an early-stage startup with ambiguity and less direction
- You know how to ship high-quality code using good testing practices in iterative cycles.
- You collaborate well with others and can communicate effectively in a remote culture.
- You are proactive. When you see something broken, you jump on it to fix it or suggest improvements.
- You move fast, test, and iterate quickly. In the first month, you'll:
- Meet frequently with Grant our CTO and Brendan our CEO
- Setup and familiarize yourself with repositories, task management, and our dev environment
- Implement and ship your first project
- Familiarize yourself with the dissolution workflows and business concepts Within the first 3 months, you'll:
- Be able to scope and work on projects self-sufficiently
- Review code, create proposals, and contribute to architectural discussions
- Have shipped a major product or feature
- Participate in code reviews, and contribute in other ways (testing, visibility, etc.) to improve the reliability and quality of the codebase
- Understand and improve many of the codebases that the team works with Within the first 6 months, you'll:
- Contribute to the team roadmap and technical direction
- Know all the major components of our system and be able to debug complex issues
- Be able to spec and architect medium-large projects, gather feedback, and design validation and rollout plans
- Mentor other engineers joining the team
- Influence the org to improve general reliability, scalability, and performance What we offer:
- $175,000 - $200,000 USD salary regardless of your location.
- Competitive, Founding Engineer equity in a fast-growing, seed-stage startup
- 10-year window to exercise vested equity options.
- Suggested 4 weeks off to recharge and focus on mental, physical, and emotional health.
- Health, Dental, and Vision coverage

## About Sunset

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sunset provides a full-service platform that handles the legal, tax, and operational work required to wind down venture-backed startups.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Post-Seed / Pre-Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Brendan Mahony

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Startup Wind-Down Services (Legal, Tax, Operations)
- **Target customers**: B2B — venture-backed startup founders and investors who have decided to shut down their company
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To give founders the freedom to find what's next by making the shutdown process fast, affordable, and stress-free.

## Products & Services
- **[Sunset Platform](https://sunsethq.com/)**: A managed service combining a dedicated attorney, CPA, and client success lead with a purpose-built platform to handle the legal, tax, and operational aspects of winding down a startup end-to-end. Includes asset monetization, capital redistribution to investors, and filing final tax returns.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric (Private)**: **Total Funding** — $7.9M across two rounds (Pre-Seed: $1.5M on Jan 9, 2024; Venture Round: $6.4M on May 4, 2025).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors include some of the world’s best entrepreneurs and investors (specific names not publicly listed in search results). Partners include firms like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Accel Partners, and Floodgate (listed as reference investors in capital distribution examples).
- **Growth Signals**: In 1.5 years, Sunset helped over 175+ venture-backed startups shut down, has generated millions in revenue, and redistributed hundreds of millions of dollars to investors. Headcount grew 12.1% year-over-year to 14 employees.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack vs. fragmented**: Unlike stitching together separate lawyers, accountants, and consultants, Sunset provides one team and one fee for all legal, tax, and operational work.
- **Speed**: Aims to complete wind-downs in weeks (not months or years), which is a stark contrast to the typical multi-month process.
- **Purpose-built platform**: The technology platform tracks progress, shares documents, and keeps stakeholders informed, making the process transparent.
- **Monetization engine**: Actively helps monetize remaining assets (IP, software) rather than just dissolving them, returning more capital to investors.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth Path**: Scaling from a service-driven model to a product-centric one. The $6.4M raise is likely directed toward platform automation, sales team expansion (e.g., current hiring of Account Executives), and scaling the number of simultaneous wind-downs.
- **Key Priority**: Making the process more predictable and less expensive for founders, allowing them to move on faster. The service is also positioned to help investors by maximizing capital returns from failed portfolio companies.

## Why Work Here
- **Meaningful Impact**: The job directly solves a painful, expensive, and often lonely process for founders. The team is described as "legal professionals, operators, and engineers who care deeply about helping founders through some of their most difficult moments."
- **Culture and Values**: Emphasizes an open-door policy, open office floor plan to encourage communication, and pair programming within the engineering team. Described as a values-driven environment.
- **Compensation & Perks**: Offers company equity, generous PTO, paid holidays, and comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- **Team Composition**: Small (14 people) but diverse, with team members in the US, Pakistan, and Turkey. The technical team is sizable for a startup of this headcount (5 people in technical roles). Alumni have gone on to other startups like Level Up Disco, Root, and Finch.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Based in New York City, but the workforce is distributed. Likely offers a hybrid or remote-friendly environment.

## Sources
1. [Sunset Careers Page](https://sunsethq.com/careers)
2. [Sunset About Page](https://sunsethq.com/about)
3. [LinkedIn - Sunset Company Page](https://linkedin.com/company/sunsethq)
4. [Built In NYC - Sunset Profile](https://builtin.com/company/sunset-0)
5. [Sunset Homepage](https://sunsethq.com/)

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