Founding Software Engineer (Full-Stack)

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We’re looking for a Founding Software Engineer (Full-Stack) to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area. We're focused on solving a big problem: how to make all the annoying tasks outside of your code editor fully agentic; everything from deployment to performance, incidents, and bugs.

You'll be working directly with me (Daniel). Before StarSling, I was the Engineering Manager at Netflix working on the most used internal tool for their 3K+ engineers and tens of thousands of microservices — an internal developer portal called Netflix Console. Earlier in my career I was an engineer on Facebook’s AI Camera team and helped build the mobile computer vision library that currently powers camera effects for 100M+ DAUs across IG, FB, and WhatsApp.

You’ll also be working directly with my co-founder Yonas. Before StarSling, Yonas was the Founder & CEO of StackShare, a developer community used by over 40 million developers.

What You’ll Own

• Event-driven backend: Architect our Node.js / Next.js / TypeScript and Supabase stack.
• LLM Agentic Workflows: Build a system of agents — MCP, tool use, memory, retry logic, context updates, feedback mechanisms.
• Agent Experience (AX): Create intuitive product interfaces for human-agent interactions.
• System Design & Technical Strategy: Work directly with me to determine the best technical path that balances moving fast and scaling to many customers using different dev tools.

This IS for you if

• You’re a full-stack 0-to-1 builder who has shipped to production.
• You have a genuine curiosity about agentic product experiences and are excited about understanding the impact of AI on engineering users.
• You’re a previous founder or founding engineer.
• You’re unusually obsessed with hard problems.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to dynamic priorities.
• You have excellent communication and candor.
• You care about helping swamped engineers fight through the schlep of software development.
• You have grit and perseverance.

This IS NOT for you if

• You’re not based in The Bay Area.
• You’re not willing to work six days per week.
• You’re not excited about using codegen tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, etc.
• You’re not comfortable deleting 80%-90% of the code that you write.
• You’re not comfortable with ambiguity and rapid context-switching.
• You don’t like candor- receiving and giving direct, honest feedback.
• You need a well defined structure or career ladder.

The Opportunity

• Work alongside two experienced co-founders.
• Get experience across the startup stack.
• Be the first employee of the next dev tools category leader.

Base pay range

$150,000.00/yr - $190,000.00/yr

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

StarSling is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.