Senior Software engineer, Founding team

About us

Software engineering is being fundamentally transformed by AI, and we're building the tools to lead that shift. Aviator is creating the engineering productivity supertools that will define how the best teams build software in the AI era.We as strongly believe that we can provide developers with super powers to build faster and better by solving the challenges that they face everyday.

We believe the future of software development isn't engineers replaced by AI—it's engineers supercharged by it. Small teams will ship what once required hundreds of people. Complex workflows that took days will complete in minutes. We're building that future.

Backed by Y Combinator (S21), we're a small, focused team in San Francisco tackling one of the most important problems in tech: making every engineer dramatically more effective. We are a team of ex-Googlers with background building engineering teams at several fast-growing silicon valley startups.

Our platform already powers workflow automation at Slack, Figma, DoorDash, Square and other industry leaders. Square. MergeQueue eliminates merge conflicts and broken builds. FlexReview intelligently routes code reviews. And Runbooks—our newest product—is a collaborative AI agent platform that lets engineering teams automate complex workflows through natural language specs and shared context.

About the role

We are looking for early engineers to join our nimble team to build the initial product alongside the founders. This person will be an extension to us, the founders, and have the same voice on the table. We think of early engineers as having the ethos of being a founder themselves.

An ideal candidate has a unique mix of software expertise, domain knowledge, and execution driven mindset.

What you will do

• Work closely with the users to understand their development needs and use cases to guide our roadmap. Ensure customer needs are supported by broader engineering team through effective prioritization.
• Build prototypes all the way to final products. Solve complex issues for our users.
• Collaborate with our founders to gather requirements through detailed technical discussions and brainstorming sessions.
• Explore new product development areas driven by strategic understanding of users landscape.
• Take ownership and drive initiatives for segments within the product.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• Shipped full-stack products before - whether it was in your day job or projects outside of work.
• Experience working in low-structure environment, comfortable working with unknowns.
• Passion for building engineering tools, excited about solving problems for engineers.
• Strong communication skills.
• Previous experience building internal engineering tools a plus.
• 5+ years of professional experience

Why you should join us

• Have an impact from day 1. You will be working very closely with the founders everyday.
• Solve your own problems, as a software engineer, you get to solve problems that you face everyday
• Own the product - drive the product vision, participate in building the early team and work closely with the users.

Benefits

• Health/Dental/Vision
• Unlimited vacation policy
• Transparency - we overshare all investor and company updates with everyone