Founding Engineer Fulltime

Overview

We’re looking for a generalist engineer who believes in our mission of helping families after a loved one dies. As a founding engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our product & technology roadmap. Your work will include a wide variety of technologies to launch new features for our funeral platform. You’ll collaborate directly with the cofounders on every part of the stack and help improve the funeral planning experience for millions of Americans every year.

Location: Hybrid in NYC

Equity: 0.25% – 1.0%

Responsibilities
• Design, build, test, and monitor features across our platform. You’re a full-stack engineer who doesn’t shy away from unfamiliar or complex problems. You’ll have complete ownership and agency in exploring, scoping, and ultimately solving some of the most interesting problems we face.
• Help lead the technical direction of the company and build a world-class engineering team. You’ll be driving our platform forward and making critical choices about our architecture and internal tooling. As we grow, you’ll be instrumental in building a lean and powerful team.
• Work closely with the founding team to shape our product and technology roadmap. We don’t have all the answers—we’re hoping you can help. Together we’ll design our product roadmap and plan for our long-term future as a company.
• Wear multiple hats, sometimes at the same time. You may be asked to help perform UX research, write the first draft of a design doc, or help onboard a customer who’s unfamiliar with our systems.

Requirements
• Experience working in a fast-paced environment and delivering results quickly. Startup experience is a major plus.
• Strong experience with TypeScript/React, and Node. Our tech stack is Javascript-focused, but we also have tools in Python, SQL, and Bash. We also use Firebase, Vercel, Mongo, and a few other utilities.
• Urgent propensity towards action. There are millions of people and thousands of organizations who can benefit from our services, and we need to operate swiftly, with a strong sense of purpose.
• Clear, concise, and down-to-earth communication. Nobody’s royalty here. You can speak to everyone as if they’re a friendly acquaintance.
• Comfort being close to death & grieving families. (If you’ve made it this far, we think you’ve met this one already. But in case it wasn’t clear, you’ll be talking about death every day.)

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