Founding Engineer (Full Stack)

Full-Time • Competitive Equity • Free Healthcare • Seattle strongly preferred

About Peasy

Peasy is the operating system for independent CPG brands (the things you buy at a store, from food to home cleaning supplies). Running a CPG business today means juggling spreadsheets, disconnected tools, and guesswork across inventory, purchasing, production, and sales. We replace that chaos with one platform that integrates with the tools brands already run on, like Shopify and QuickBooks.

The software is 100% free—we make money on the payment transactions that flow through it. We have brands actively using the platform, strong product-market fit signal, and $2M raised with 2+ years of runway. We believe Peasy can be a generational company in the mold of Toast: the operating platform for restaurants, valued at $25B and making 85% of its revenue from payments.

The Role

As our founding engineer, you'll work directly with the founders to shape Peasy's product, architecture, and engineering culture from the ground up. You'll own features end-to-end, make foundational technical decisions, and build the systems that scale us to thousands of brands. Brands trust us with the operational backbone of their business, so what you ship has to be beautiful, fast, and rock solid.

Who You Are

• A builder who ships. You take ideas from 0→1 and take pride in the craft of what you put your name on.
• AI-native. You build with AI every day as real leverage, and know when to trust it and when to think for yourself.
• An owner, not a passenger. You see the problem, pick it up, and carry it to done—without waiting to be told what matters.
• At home in ambiguity. Early-stage means no map. You create clarity instead of waiting for it.
• A genuinely good teammate. Low ego, high standards. You disagree well and care more that the work is right than that you were.
• Bought into the mission. You want independent brands and small businesses to win.

What You’ll Do

Own feature development end-to-end, from prototype to production. Make foundational calls on architecture, infrastructure, and tooling. Help build Beacon and the AI-driven workflows at the core of the product. Deepen integrations with the systems brands rely on (Shopify, QuickBooks). Ship fast, iterate on real feedback, and establish the engineering practices and culture the team will grow on.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, shipping production systems with modern frameworks.
• Deep Next.js experience - our entire app runs on Next.js (App Router) with React and TypeScript. This is the day-to-day, so you should be strong here, not just familiar.
• Solid Postgres + Supabase (or comparable BaaS) experience, plus building and consuming REST APIs and third-party integrations.
• Strong product sense and a track record of executing quickly in ambiguous environments.
• Comfort working with LLMs.

Nice to have: experience with LLM/AI products (prompting, evals, agentic workflows—we use Anthropic and Codex APIs); payments/fintech (Stripe, Moov, Plaid); commerce/ERP/inventory software or building for SMBs; CPG or retail familiarity; prior 0→1 or founder experience.

Seattle strongly preferred. We work best in the room together. Not a hard requirement for the right person.

Our Stack

You don't need every item on this list, but it's what you'll be working in day to day:

• Framework & language: Next.js (App Router) with Turbopack, React 19, TypeScript
• Data & backend: Supabase (Postgres, Auth, Edge Functions), deployed on Vercel
• Client data & tables: TanStack Query, TanStack Table, TanStack Virtual
• UI: Tailwind CSS, Radix UI / shadcn-style components, Motion, Lucide
• Forms & validation: React Hook Form, Zod
• AI: Anthropic and Google Gemini APIs (this powers Beacon, our in-house agent)
• Integrations: Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe, Moov, Plaid, Cloudinary, Resend, Intercom
• Quality & observability: Jest + Testing Library, Playwright, Sentry, PostHog
• piTooling: Yarn, ESLint, Prettier, Husky

Why Join Now

• Impact: You'll write the code and make the technical calls that shape Peasy for years.
• Timing: Funded with active users and 2+ years of runway. Early enough for outsized influence and a real leadership path, stable enough to build for the long term.
• Ownership: Founder-level responsibility, with the autonomy that comes with it.
• Growth: Build not just product, but a team and culture from the ground up.
• Mission: Help independent CPG brands compete and win, so they can be free to create.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary: $150K–$175K
• Equity: 0.5–1%, competitive for a founding engineer at this stage
• Healthcare: Fully covered, 100% free for you and dependants

Your success is our success. As we grow, so does your compensation.

How to Apply

Send a note to View email address on click.appcast.io, include your linkedin, GitHub and a note with one thing you've learned about building with AI that most people get wrong.

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