Founding Engineer ($120K - $300K + Equity) at $14M Sequoia-backed interactive storytelling startup

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Job Title

Founding Engineer

Salary

$120K - $300K + Equity

Company Description

$14M Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins backed interactive storytelling startup

Job Description

Join a high-growth consumer platform reaching #4 in the App Store with only three employees. You will own the full-stack architecture and personalized recommendation infrastructure serving 2T tokens monthly. This is a rare opportunity to build the future of entertainment alongside founders from Substack and world-class AI researchers in San Francisco.

Location

San Francisco, USA

Why this role is remarkable

* Exceptional traction with 100K+ teenagers spending 3+ hours daily in-app and 40% MoM growth in user engagement.

* Elite pedigree working directly with the founding designer of Substack and a CTO who trained the world's first image-editing AI.

* Massive technical scale serving over 200 million user messages per month with a lean, world-class engineering team.

What You Will Do

* Take end-to-end ownership of the core app surface and critical product features used by millions of global users.

* Design and scale personalized recommendation systems to handle high-concurrency traffic and massive token distribution.

* Architect and maintain robust infrastructure that goes far beyond simple deployments to support complex, interactive story engines.

The ideal candidate

* Proven track record of building and scaling production infrastructure rather than just managed deployments.

* Previous experience in a high-growth startup environment or a portfolio of deeply technical and meaningful side projects.

* A genuine passion for fandom, reading, or fanfiction culture to help shape the next century of digital storytelling.

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