Founding Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Voice AI Startup

Founding Software Engineer - Hypergrowth Voice AI Startup The company's office is in the Menlo Park area. They plan to move to a new office around June 2025, which will most likely be in Palo Alto. The company seeks engineers who are eager to work 5 days/week in the office in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment. The company's product involves voice AI, conversational AI, and developer tools. The company's founding team is comprised of experts from leading companies including Meta and Google. The company has achieved very strong revenues within 12 months of founding, and revenues are rapidly growing. The company has 6 employees and seeks to hire 6 engineers as soon as possible. They expect to have 25 employees within the next year. The company will pay salary up to $220k, plus equity (roughly 1% of the company) which could be very lucrative. Job responsibilities: - You could spend anywhere from 50-100% of your time on backend engineering. - Designing scalable solutions and shipping features for a production-ready voice agent platform. - Leading initiatives across backend, front end, and infrastructure, with opportunities for high ownership and growth. - Collaborating closely with designers and other engineers throughout the design and implementation phases. Qualifications: - A founder mindset. - Strong work ethic and fine working 50-60 hours/week. - Programming language agnostic and interested/able to learn and use new technologies as needed. - Experience from fast-growing startups or top tech companies. - Strong technical skills in at least one of these technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, Python, C++, Java, C#, Go, Ruby, C, PHP. - Ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment. - Excellent communication skills. Nice to have: - A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from a highly ranked university. - Experience building AI products. About Skyrocket Ventures Skyrocket Ventures is a recruiting firm for hundreds of high growth technology companies that range from industry leaders to top-tier startups. This opportunity is with one of our client companies for a full-time permanent hire. Please only apply if you are authorized to work in the U.S. Please note that even if this job is not a perfect match, we encourage you to apply as long as it is in the ballpark. Companies are often flexible in hiring candidates who do not perfectly fit their written job description, as long as the most important qualifications are there and the candidate is good in general. Most of the jobs we are recruiting for are not posted online, so if you would like to know of all the opportunities we have that match your interests and qualifications, then please get in touch with us. After you apply to this job posting, we’ll consider you for this job as well as any other potential matches with our client companies. If we have any potential matches, we’ll share your resume with those companies and contact you about any interview opportunities we can get you. Thank you, and we wish you a great job search