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title: 'Founding Full Stack Engineer at Vamo'
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# Founding Full Stack Engineer at Vamo

- **Company:** Vamo
- **Location:** Santa Monica, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2025-08-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/vamo-xyz/am9icG9zdDqIWXG-ZHUDI7C4aQ_H5pGy

## Job description

Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Backend/Infra) — Venice Beach, CA About us: Our partner is a repeat-founder team building a consumer social + health product. Tagline: Healthmaxxing With Friends. Alpha users love it, and we are ready to hire our first founding full-stack engineer.

The role: Own the backend and platform from day one. Design clean APIs, data models, and services that feel fast for users. Partner closely with mobile to ship features that drive daily habit and retention. This is staff level and up with real product and architecture influence.

What you’ll do:

- Design, build, and operate APIs, data pipelines, and low-latency services
- Stand up infra as code, CI/CD, observability, alerting, and SLOs
- Work with product to turn ideas into shipped features and measurable wins
- Keep the system secure and reliable as we scale from first thousands to millions

You might be a fit if you have:

- 3–10+ years shipping production software in small, fast teams. Not about years worked but what you’ve built.
- Depth in backend and cloud: one or more of Node.js, Go, Python/Django; AWS; Postgres; queues; caches – full stack skillset with focus on infrastructure and backend.
- Infra hygiene: Terraform or equivalent, CI/CD, on-call experience
- Performance stories: reduced P90/P95, improved uptime, or scaled high-traffic flows
- Product sensibility and comfort owning ambiguous, zero-to-one work

Nice to have:

- Mobile touchpoints: React Native, Swift/SwiftUI, or Android/Kotlin
- Regulated data exposure: HIPAA, SOC 2, FHIR
- Social, fitness, or health app experience

Location and setup: Hybrid in Venice Beach. West Coast preferred. Relocation supported within 6–12 months. Competitive comp with strong equity.

How to apply Send a short note and links to GitHub or shipped work to jobs@vamotalent.com. Bonus: include one example of a latency or reliability win you’re proud of!

## 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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