Founding Engineer

Your marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search. San Francisco, CA, US Full-time US citizen/visa only 3+ years Django PostgreSQL Python React Gauge helps companies show up in more AI answers. AI engines received 7 billion visits last month, up 76% from last year. Over 10% of the adult U.S population now uses ChatGPT. With traffic shifting, the way customers are discovering and deciding has changed. Gauge measures responses in AI answers to find the highest leverage opportunities for your brand. This enables you to increase your AI presence and drive more leads. We're growing incredibly fast (>30% MoM) and have both strong retention and expansion with our customer base. We support some of YC's most successful companies (PostHog, Supabase). About the role We’re hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer to join our team! This role is full-time in San Francisco at our Presidio office. Gauge helps companies show up in more AI answers. Search traffic is shifting away from Google into AI chat, and companies are figuring out how to adapt right now. Our system delivers real-time analytics derived from millions of LLM answers, while also providing an intuitive, powerful UX. We generate optimized articles to improve our customers visibility, and offer an agentic chat interface over their data (think 'Why was there a spike on 12/10?' or 'Which of my pages should I refresh?'). What You’ll Do In this role, you would work on every component in our system to improve the product for customers. You will be expected to turn high-level guidance into high quality, end-to-end features, while making smart investments into the scalability of our platform. You could be building AI agent workflows, high-volume data pipelines, embedded BI tools, or anything else that helps our customers win in AI search. We have Slack channels with our customers, so you’ll get immediate feedback when you ship. What We’re Looking For We need engineers who can maintain a strong quality bar while shipping extremely quickly, and who know how to make smart tradeoffs to get features in front of customers. You might be a good fit if you are an ex-founder, ex-founding engineer, or have worked at a high-growth Seed/Series A startup. Strong candidates: have built products from 0 to 1 have broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, queues) use AI coding tools effectively (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor etc.) have 3+ YoE in web development Technology Application: React, Django, Postgres, Celery, ClickhouseMarketing: Webflow, GA4/GSC, PostHog Interview Process Initial Screen (30m) - Tech Exercise (1hr) - Onsite (6hrs) San Francisco, CA, US Full-time $100K - $300K 0.10% - 0.50% 3+ years Hundreds of YC startups are hiring on Work at a Startup. #J-18808-Ljbffr