Founding Engineer — Delivery

About the Role

We're looking for someone who wants to run delivery like it's their own company — not manage tickets, but own outcomes. You'll sit at the center of client relationships, technical architecture, and team growth. This isn't a management role in the corporate sense — it's a build-and-own role for someone hands-on who's ready to stop being told what to build and start deciding it.

If you've been doing solid work for 5-8 years but feel like you're capped, coasting, or just executing someone else's roadmap — this is the opposite of that.

What You'll Own

• Client relationships: run requirement calls directly, translate business needs into technical specs without a middleman
• Architecture decisions: make the calls on how things get built, not just how they get coded
• Code quality: review the team's work, set the bar
• Team growth: unblock junior developers, mentor them into stronger engineers
• Hands-on development: when bandwidth allows, build features yourself; this isn't a pure-management seat
• Project health: track delivery status, catch issues before the client does, fix them fast

What We're Looking For

• Experience: 5-8 years of full-stack experience (MERN preferred); comfortable across the stack, not siloed
• Client-facing skills: real client-facing experience — you've sat in requirement calls and owned the outcome, not relayed messages
• Owning outcomes: a track record of building and owning something end-to-end — not just maintaining what others designed
• Mindset: Startup or small-team background preferred — you're used to ambiguity, not process for its own sake
• Leadership: Some experience mentoring or leading other developers, even informally
• Coding habits: Still writes code regularly — if you haven't shipped anything hands-on in 2+ years, this isn't the fit
• Stability: Low job-hop history — we're looking for someone who wants to build something over years, not months

What This Isn't

• Not a pure people-management role — you'll still write code
• Not a ticket-execution job — we want judgment, not just delivery against a spec
• Not for seniority-focused individuals who prefer working alone over ownership: if the title matters more to you than the ownership, this probably isn't it