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title: 'Software Engineer, Origin at Graphite'
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# Software Engineer, Origin at Graphite

- **Company:** Graphite
- **Location:** New York City, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-04-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/graphite/c1c39a52-543c-4c50-aee3-43d24214d7cd

## Job description

Our mission is to automate coding. The first step in our journey is to build the best tool for professional programmers, using a combination of inventive research, design, and engineering. Our organization is very flat, and our team is small and talent dense. We particularly like people who are truth-seeking, passionate, and creative. We enjoy spirited debate, crazy ideas, and shipping code.

We plan on fleshing out the entire Software Development Lifecycle, & that is where code review teams like Origin come into play.

## About the Role

Graphite was acquired by Cursor at the end of last year and, since joining, we’ve been working on building our Origin https://cursor.com/origin?utm_source=google_paid&utm_medium=paid&utm_campaign=%5BSearch%5D%20%5BBrand%5D%20%5BEN%5D%20%5BCore%20T1%5D%20%5BPhrase%5D%20%5BMaxConv%5D%20Origin%20Brand&utm_term=cursor%20origin&utm_content=813207039791&cc_platform=google&cc_campaignid=23943232077&cc_adgroupid=197634417277&cc_adid=813207039791&cc_keyword=cursor%20origin&cc_matchtype=b&cc_device=c&cc_network=g&cc_placement=&cc_location=9031326&cc_adposition=&cc_gclid=Cj0KCQjwg5zTBhCLARIsAP2AFU5iZJYeHtFhM_kWTUOr18QYKx81V_UmHY7Xb4vhQPpe6bJzyxQW7ZYaAjODEALw_wcB&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23943232077&gbraid=0AAAABAkdGgS0Y4d3oLNqYRqSQnr0lW-tP&gclid=Cj0KCQjwg5zTBhCLARIsAP2AFU5iZJYeHtFhM_kWTUOr18QYKx81V_UmHY7Xb4vhQPpe6bJzyxQW7ZYaAjODEALw_wcB Product to ship to our customers. This will be the Git Forge for the modern AI coding era & are looking for engineers to help scale this product offering!

Initially, the team started Graphite because we loved internal code review tools like Phabricator (at Facebook) and Critique (Google) that help engineers create, approve, and ship small, incremental changes, and long-term we’re passionate about creating products & workflows that help fast-moving eng teams achieve more! Now, we’re taking it a step further by completing the entire software development lifecycle on Cursor’s platform.

## What you’ll do

- Launch new Origin features end-to-end from defining the feature & building the UI to wiring up the backend & systems.
- Build new features around code understanding, CI/CD pipelines, and more.
- You will own Origin’s product surface end-to-end: features, integrations, onboarding, configuration, and the user experience as it pertains to AI code review.
- You will not own foundation model training or core infrastructure services — but you will be a key consumer and collaborator, driving requirements based on what Origin needs.
- Partner with product teams to inform model improvements with real-world review data, scale the system as adoption grows, & partner with adjacent product areas such as Bugbot.
- Quality is the product. This is an exciting & ambitious product offering, and has the abilityt o change the way people are building & shipping products moving forward. You'll be obsessive about making Originut a genuinely useful & effective product.

You may be a fit if

- You’ve shipped full-stack product features end-to-end and enjoy moving between frontend, backend, and model integration.
- You care deeply about developer experience and storage layer products
- You’ve launched a product or feature to external users and owned the full loop: onboarding, documentation, feedback, and iteration.
- An ability to identify problems, build alignment, and implement solutions autonomously
- Working in high scale environments to help support traffic.

## #LI-DNI

## About Graphite

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Graphite is an AI-powered code review platform that helps engineering teams on GitHub ship higher quality software faster by streamlining code review, pull request management, and merge workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly specified, but well-funded startup backed by top-tier investors)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States (HQ at 148 Lafayette St, Floor 6; additional offices in Brooklyn, NY and San Francisco, CA)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Tomas Reimers (Co-Founder & CPO) and Merrill Lutsky (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development, Developer Tools, AI-Powered Engineering Productivity
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise engineering teams, SMB development teams, and individual developers using GitHub
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To define the next generation of software development tools by building an AI code review platform where teams ship higher quality code, faster.

## Products & Services
- **Graphite Platform (Core)**: The central AI code review platform that integrates deeply with GitHub. It provides an AI reviewer that catches critical bugs, suggests fixes, and collaborates via Graphite Chat—all within the PR page. Includes a stack-aware merge queue that lands PRs in order and keeps branches green.
- **Graphite CLI & VS Code Extension**: Tools for creating and managing stacked PRs (breaking large changes into smaller, sequenced PRs) to keep developers unblocked while waiting for reviews.
- **Graphite Agent**: An AI-powered agent that assists with code review, CI failure resolution, and applying suggested fixes directly from the PR page.
- **Reviewer Assignment**: Automated assignment of code reviewers to ensure balanced and timely reviews.
- **Merge Queue**: A stack-aware merge queue that lands PRs in order, resolves conflicts, and keeps branches green.
- **Slack Integration**: Actionable notifications for PR updates, reviews, and merge events.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue estimated at $1.0M (source: LinkedIn, likely early-stage/pre-revenue or early revenue stage)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed in available data, but the company is backed by top-tier talent pipeline from Meta, Notion, Airbnb, Facebook, Shopify, Stripe, and Cursor—suggesting strong investor/partner relationships.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 105 total employees (LinkedIn), 57 employees (LinkedIn company page) with +27% YoY headcount growth (+17 people)
  - LinkedIn followers: 10,033 (+2.4% monthly, +167.1% yearly)
  - Strong talent acquisition from top tech companies (Meta, Notion, Airbnb, Shopify, Stripe, Cursor)
  - 3 offices across the US (NYC, Brooklyn, San Francisco)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep GitHub Integration**: Seamlessly syncs with GitHub, making it a native part of existing workflows rather than a separate tool.
- **Stacked PR Workflow**: Unique CLI and VS Code extension for creating and managing stacked PRs—a powerful workflow for accelerating reviews and keeping teams unblocked.
- **AI-Native Code Review**: Graphite Chat and Agent provide an AI reviewer that can catch bugs, suggest fixes, and resolve CI failures directly in the PR page, offering a collaborative AI experience.
- **Stack-Aware Merge Queue**: Automatically lands PRs in order and manages conflicts, reducing manual merge overhead.
- **Modern PR Page**: Redesigned PR page highlights changes, history, and comments for faster, more focused reviews.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: 
  - Expanding AI capabilities (Graphite Chat, Agent, and AI reviewer)
  - Deepening GitHub integration and expanding to more developer platforms
  - Scaling enterprise adoption with features like Reviewer Assignment and Merge Queue
  - Growing the team aggressively (multiple open roles in engineering, sales, and data science)
- **Direction for growth**: Becoming the standard code review platform for all engineering teams on GitHub, leveraging AI to automate and accelerate the entire review workflow.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: 
  - Values: Kindness (supportive environment), Expertise (building for world-class engineers), Urgency (moving fast, removing friction)
  - Team offsites in thoughtfully chosen locations annually
  - Collaborative, in-office culture with a focus on building great dev tools
- **Remote/hybrid/office policy**: In-Office (employees work from physical offices in NYC, Brooklyn, and San Francisco)
- **Notable perks**:
  - Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee during workdays
  - Pre-tax public transport benefits or parking
  - Generous vacation policy
  - Paid family leave
  - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage (for self and dependents)
  - 401(k) retirement savings plan with immediate eligibility
- **Engineering culture**: High-caliber team with talent from Meta, Notion, Airbnb, Shopify, Stripe, and Cursor. Emphasis on thoughtful AI, intentional design, and developer experience. Strong mentorship and growth environment.

## Sources
1. [Graphite Homepage](https://graphite.com/l/homepage)
2. [Graphite Careers Page](https://graphite.com/careers)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withgraphite)
4. [Built In Profile](https://builtin.com/company/graphite)
5. [Ashby Jobs Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/graphite/)

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