Founding Engineer (Python / FastAPI / Next.js)

Location: Remote, U.S.-based, with regular in-person work sessions with the founder during the early months and occasional travel to manufacturing sites.

Salary: $160k–$250k annually plus an equity grant.

Company

hirify.global develops products for founders and business leaders and manages the hiring process for this staffing-partner role. The client is building software and an intelligence layer for consumer goods manufacturers, providing a shared real-time view of production runs from purchase order through shipment.

What you will do

• Own the codebase and technical architecture, auditing the existing v1 and deciding what to retain, rebuild, and harden.
• Ship full-stack features across Python, FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, WebSockets, and Next.js.
• Build reliable integrations with ERP systems and other third-party tools for order, inventory, and production data.
• Design the data model and maintain clean, reversible Alembic migrations.
• Build real-time workflows for shared production status, documents, and messages, while owning infrastructure, deployment, and monitoring.
• Work with design partners, shape product decisions and AI capabilities, set engineering standards, and help hire future engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building production software, with ownership across both front end and back end.
• Experience shipping a product from 0 to 1, ideally as an early engineer at a startup.
• Fluent Python and TypeScript skills, with experience in FastAPI or a similar framework and React or Next.js.
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge covering schema design, query tuning, and migrations.
• Experience integrating external systems, including retries, idempotency, and synchronization conflict handling.
• Ability to make product and prioritization decisions, challenge proposals, and work directly with a hands-on founder.
• Tests, monitoring, and clean deployments treated as part of shipping.
• Daily use of AI tools to improve development speed.
• Clear written communication and close collaboration with a detail-oriented founder.

Nice to have

• Experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite, SAP Business One, Acumatica, or QuickBooks, or with supply chain, manufacturing, or B2B operations software.
• Experience building real-time features with WebSockets.
• Experience shipping AI- or LLM-powered features such as document extraction or retrieval.
• Side projects demonstrating range and initiative.

Culture & Benefits

• Builder-oriented environment focused on shipping, user conversations, and iterative product development.
• Close collaboration with the founder and design partners, with substantial ownership over technical and product decisions.
• Regular in-person sessions with the founder during the early months and occasional visits to manufacturing sites.
• Annual compensation of $160k–$250k plus an equity grant; share count and fully diluted total are shared during the hiring process.

Hiring process

• hirify.global manages the hiring process, while the successful candidate is hired directly by and works within the client company.