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Role:Founding Full Stack Engineer
Location:San Francisco, CA.
On site. Full time.
About the job
Advantra is partnering with a seed-stage AI startup in San Francisco to hire a Founding Full Stack Engineer to build the next-generation information retrieval platform.
About the role
You will build and own the developer experience layer, including dashboards, analytics, and tools for internal and external users. You will ship full-stack features across frontend, backend, and AI infrastructure. You will collaborate with research and product teams, iterate quickly, and improve developer workflows and interfaces.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain dashboards for usage, billing, logs, and evaluations.
- Ship end-to-end full-stack features from frontend to backend.
- Debug and optimize backend latency and system performance.
- Collaborate with research teams to implement AI improvements.
- Gather user feedback and iterate quickly on product features.
- Improve developer experience and internal tooling.
- Ensure reliability and usability of frontend and backend systems.
- Define product workflows and interfaces for early users.
Core requirements
- At least 2 years of professional experience building and shipping full-stack features.
- Strong experience in React, Typescript, Python, and SQL.
- Experience launching end-to-end products or features under tight timelines.
- Past experience at a fast-paced startup or equivalent personal projects.
- Experience debugging and optimizing backend systems.
- Experience designing frontend interfaces with attention to UX.
- Ability to collaborate across teams, including research and product.
- Strong ownership mindset and ability to work in ambiguity.
- Experience with developer tooling or dashboards.
- Experience with AI infrastructure or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems is a plus.
Nice to have
- Experience building devtools or internal developer platforms.
- Background in AI infrastructure or machine learning systems.
- Experience with real-time analytics or logging systems.
- Experience working in tight feedback loops with research teams.
- Participation in competitive programming or Olympiads.
How to apply
Email with links to shipped work and a short note on what you owned. Company name shared after the intro.
About Us
Advantra-Upstart Crew is a search program inside Advantra Consulting. We partner with early stage and high growth startups to hire the top 2% in Tech and GTM. We run end to end searches, from single role headhunts to full team build outs, using domain experts and a vetted network to deliver tight shortlists. We stay close to founders and candidates so the relationship lasts beyond the first hire.