Founding Full-Stack Software Engineer

What You'll Do - Architect & build across the stack. Make architectural decisions and implement solutions across the stack (Next.js, TypeScript, React, Python, Node, SQL/NoSQL). You have the conviction to quickly build from concept to deployment to seeing clients love our product. - Collaborate with customers.

Work directly with users to understand pain points, join calls, hear what's working and what isn't, and rapidly iterate to deliver solutions that matter. - Tackle a wide breadth of engineering challenges. Our work spans AI, data engineering, backend, frontend, and more - so there's plenty of opportunity to find projects that match your strengths and interests.

Some examples include: - AI/ML Integration: Productionize LLMs and classical ML models for real-world, high-uptime applications - including prompt execution, embeddings, RAG pipelines, and agentic systems. Leverage the latest in generative AI tooling and frameworks. - Data Engineering: Build pipelines and infrastructure for ingesting, normalizing, and querying massive, multi-modal datasets (text, audio, video). - Shape Clipbook's engineering culture.

As one of the first engineers, you'll influence everything - code quality, system design principles, documentation standards, testing, deployment, and how we build as a team. You'll mentor future hires and drive best practices. We believe leaders stay hands-on: even as we grow, everyone (including managers) continues to ship.

What We're Looking For - 2-10+ years of relevant engineering experience at tech and product-driven companies. You've taken systems from zero to production and owned the full lifecycle. - Proficiency with web technologies (Next.js, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, etc.) - Genuine excitement to build quickly & ship fast. We care about getting things into users' hands and iterating from there. - Deep knowledge and practical experience with cloud-based services, containerization, and API development. - Experience optimizing data architectures for performance and cost. - You take ownership.

When something is broken or unclear, you fix it or flag it without waiting to be asked. - Comfortable with ambiguity. You make reasonable calls with incomplete information, communicate them clearly, and adjust as you learn more. - Strong product sense and bias for action. We're a small team and can't afford analysis paralysis - we make decisions with incomplete information and learn from real customer feedback. - A future leader.

You'll help shape our engineering culture and can quickly grow into engineering leadership as the company scales. Bonus Points - Experience with any of the following: - LLM fine-tuning, RAG, RLHF, or eval pipelines - Computer vision or multimodal model experience (audio, video, image) - Semantic search, vector databases, or meaning-aware retrieval - Familiarity with web scraping frameworks (Playwright, Puppeteer) and different types of API integrations (REST, GraphQL) - Comfort with asynchronous workflows, rate-limiting, and distributed systems - Startup founder or early-stage experience is a huge plus.

What This Role Is Not We're hiring across the full stack with a focus on building product. This probably isn't the right fit if your background is primarily in firmware, embedded systems, hardware engineering, networking, or infrastructure/DevOps. A Few Things Worth Knowing - We care more about what you ship than when or where you work, but this is an early-stage company growing fast.

The pace reflects that. Our culture is intense and driven by H&H (hunger and hustle). - As one of the first engineers, you'll wear a lot of hats. There's no platform team to hand things off to yet.

Compensation &

Benefits - Salary: $150K-$220K - Equity: Early-stage grant with significant upside -

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), unlimited PTO Growth: A clear path to engineering leadership as we scale