Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff)

About the role Software should be beautiful. Variant is a code generation tool designed for creativity. Instead of a confined conversation, you can generate endless designs from a single idea. Freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result. We call this generative creativity. We're well-capitalized and looking for a founding engineer to own the back end of Variant. The ideal candidate: Has impactful experience at a company known for its sophisticated backend, contributed to a notable open source project, or has an impressive portfolio Experience building complex backends for chat applications with reliable streaming to clients Proficient with Puppeteer and Chromium for backend jobs with headless browsers Built backend for apps managing complex project states Obsessed with performance, reliability, and scalability Fully committed to building a startup Balances quality with fast shipping Proactive and decisive Communicates effectively and knows when to challenge or support decisions We hold ourselves to these same principles. Our team is intentionally small. Your code will matter from day one, and its impact will grow over time. This will be the most meaningful work of your career . We work from a beautiful space in San Francisco, dreaming up the future and making it real together. We’re backed by notable investors. If you've built things you're proud of, we'd love to see them. About Variant Software should be beautiful. Variant generates well-designed software. Instead of a confined conversation, it creates endless designs from a single idea. You can explore, discover new directions, and build better software. We call this generative creativity, and it’s how creating software should work. #J-18808-Ljbffr Variant