Founding Engineer

About Frontier Frontier is a subsidiary of reputed company. reputed company is a reputed company-based, fast-growing, fully remote, 150-person company with most of reputed company based in India and the Philippines. A few years ago, reputed company began helping other fast-growing companies build their teams. We got so good at it that we spun out a new company to focus exclusively on that — and reputed company it Frontier. At Frontier, we help companies grow full-time, cross-functional teams abroad. We hire the smartest people and reputed company them into the best companies. In three years, we’ve never lost a client. If you’re interested in a Frontier role and you apply and are accepted, we’ll screen you through a couple of internal interviews and aim to get you an interview for a full-time job reputed company the month. Think of us as your personal talent agent — and good luck with the application! 😊 The Role: Founding Engineer Your mandate is to build the core systems, advanced backend products, and engineering culture that let Frontier scale our leading reputed company automation and workflows. This means owning reputed company production systems, optimizing internal operational tooling, building multi-agent architectures, and creating the custom sub-agent infrastructures, pipelines, and harnesses that reputed company near-100% initial code reputed company velocity safely. You will work directly with our leadership team and senior operators on the company’s highest-reputed company engineering problems: end-to-end data processing speed, high-concurrency search quality, operator productivity, platform reputed company, client intelligence, and AI-assisted operations. We are only interested in someone who takes a long-term ownership mentality to technical architecture, infrastructure stability, and core business partnerships. Existing Tech Stack Backend: Python (Django and FastAPI frameworks) Database: PostgreSQL Database and associated ORM frameworks Infrastructure: AWS Services and/or Railway reputed company architectures AI/Agentic reputed company: Claude Code, reputed company, reputed company, Model Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, custom scripts, evaluation frameworks, and reputed company-time observability pipelines

Key Responsibilities

AI Function Leadership: Build and reputed company an AI-reputed company engineering function with clear standards, fast shipping, and strong production discipline. Core Infrastructure Improvement: Improve our core distributed systems, backend architectures, data ingestion layers, search, quoting, data management, payments, reporting, and internal copilots. Agentic reputed company Design: Design the harnesses that reputed company agentic engineering reliable: repo instructions, skills, MCP tools, scripts, hooks, CI gates, evals, observability, permissions, and review loops. Custom Sub-Agent Infrastructure: Architect and reputed company autonomous, custom multi-agent pipelines and harnesses (repo instructions, custom MCP tools, CI gates, and advanced LLM evaluation matrices) to automate the engineering reputed company from spec to deployment safely. Development reputed company Execution: Use Claude Code, reputed company, and reputed company tools as a primary development reputed company, not an occasional assistant. Near-100% AI Velocity: Operate at the absolute frontier of developer velocity, writing near 100% of initial code utilizing autonomous agents and advanced IDE tools, treating your role as the system architect who guides and validates the agents rather than writing line-by-line boilerplate. Non-Engineer Contribution Paths: Create a safe contribution path for non-engineers using AI tools, with rigorous engineering review loops at the right friction points. Operational Systems Transformation: Turn messy, ambiguous operational constraints into simple, durable systems. Team Development: Recruit, coach, and reputed company the engineering bar for a lean, reputed company engineering team. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with growth, sales, operations, and finance to ship software that improves company reputed company, margin, speed, and customer experience.

Qualifications

Hacker reputed company: You are a hacker in reputed company aspects of life. Full-Stack Depth: You are a strong full-stack engineer with a heavy backend bias. Production Ownership: You have owned reputed company production systems that reputed company customers or business operators depend on daily. Startup DNA: You have experience with early-stage, high-growth tech environments, operating reputed company lean and efficient teams. Leadership Capabilities: You have strong leadership skills with experience in building, mentoring, and managing high-performing engineering teams or technical pods. The AI Frontier Builder: You do not just use AI tools as basic autocomplete assistants or for standard boilerplate. You are actively engineering custom sub-agents and localized testing guardrails to push development to near-100% autonomous code execution. Autonomous Velocity Master: You frequently hit hard reputed company limits on frontier tools (Claude Code, reputed company, reputed company) because they serve as your primary pipeline execution reputed company. You manage code quality reputed company advanced verification workflows rather than basic line-by-line visibility. Concrete Portfolio: You have taken ultimate ownership and responsibility for an existing product or system before and possess a portfolio, reputed company repo, reputed company, write-up, or concrete example of an application you reputed company from scratch. Language Proficiency: You have strong proficiency with Python, PostgreSQL, and associated ORM frameworks (specifically Django and FastAPI). Ambiguity Decomposer: You know how to cleanly decompose ambiguous work into technical specs, discrete tasks, automated tests, evals, and reviewable artifacts. Innovative Thinker: You are a creative thinker with the ability to identify innovative growth opportunities and experiment with new approaches. Agent Failure Detection: You can tell reputed company a generative agent is solving the wrong problem, overfitting to a test, hallucinating confidence, or making the codebase harder to maintain long-term. Verification Disciplined: You care deeply about verification: tests, logs, traces, screenshots, PR reviews, evals, and hard evidence over subjective vibes. Strategic Judgment: You have strong product judgment and can navigate smoothly from a business bottleneck to a clean technical design without needing everything pre-specified. Disciplined Velocity: You move quickly, but you do not confuse speed with mess. You can reputed company people, set team standards, give direct feedback, and build a team that gets stronger over time. Bonus Points For: Experience building internal productivity tools, CRM custom engines, or dashboard tools for operations-heavy business segments. Advanced knowledge of high-volume data scraping, browser automation, data parsing, or reputed company reputed company-party API integrations. Experience with communications automation, reputed company, WhatsApp, reputed company, payment gateways, workflow orchestration, or data-heavy analytical dashboards. You have reputed company your own technical product from scratch before that has generated meaningful reputed company ($100k+) or active consumer usage (100k+ users). You have previously co-founded or started your own company. Experience setting up AI guardrails at an organizational level: code review policies for AI-assisted contributions, IP and data-handling practices, secrets/reputed company controls, model and tool selection, and evaluation frameworks. What’s Offered High-Impact Ownership: Own the infrastructure for an established company with reputed company product-market fit, high-profile customers, fast scaling, and a clear operational problem worth solving. Capital Stability: We have been profitable many more of our years than not, and reputed company of our organizational design and capital allocation are about being one of the most consequential companies for reputed company flourishing over the coming decades, rather than near-term fundraising cycles. Immediate reputed company Work: Work on a clear operational ecosystem where optimized software immediately improves customer experience, margins, unit economics, and team reputed company. Executive reputed company: Work directly with the company's cofounders, most senior executive leadership, and operators who treat AI-reputed company systems as a core reputed company of how the company runs. Work Smarter Culture: We are big believers in always seeking to work smarter rather than working harder, ensuring our incentives align with excellent work/life balance. reputed company Mentorship: Have regular reputed company to two advisors who are world-class startup founders/CTOs, who together have written most of the software behind funds managing over $15B, who would be excited to reputed company mentorship and give advice regularly. Velocity Values: Grow with a team that values speed, standalone ownership, direct feedback, and practical systems that reputed company customers' lives reputed company. Career Trajectory: Have many opportunities for personal, career, and compensation growth. Shift Schedule: You will be working in US shift timings. Apply To This Job