Founding Engineer (Generalist)

Momentic
San Francisco, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at experienced generalist engineers who thrive in autonomy and enjoy solving complex technical and product challenges.

Best fit for

  • Experienced generalist engineers with strong TypeScript and React expertise who enjoy solving complex problems.
    — “Hands-on and extensive TypeScript proficiency”
  • Candidates who prefer in-person work and are serious about building a collaborative culture.
    — “you love working in-person, and you're serious about joining us to build a culture we'll all love”
  • Individuals who take ownership of their work and manage projects independently.
    — “thrive when you have autonomy, own as many of the details as possible, and project manage your own work”

Things to consider

  • No visa sponsorship available, which may limit eligibility for non-US citizens.
    — “We can't sponsor/transfer H1B Visas or Green Cards (I-140) at this time.”
  • The role requires a commitment to in-person work in San Francisco.
    — “Located in-person San Francisco (650 5th St.)”

How to stand out

  • Emphasize your experience with AI products and browser internals in your application materials.
    — “Experience working with browser internals like Chrome DevTools Protocol”
  • Showcase your communication skills by including examples of successful cross-functional collaboration.
    — “Have great written and verbal communication”
  • Include your experience with developer tools or AI projects to align with the 'nice to have' requirements.
    — “Experience building AI products”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · MediumAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • build and maintain an AI-native automated testing platform
  • execute millions of tests daily
Typical background
5+ years of professional software engineering experiencestrong engineering fundamentals

Skills & requirements

Required

TypeScriptReactNode.jsPostgreSQLGoogle CloudKubernetes

Preferred

Next.jsAI Product ExperienceDeveloper Tools ExperienceBrowser Internals Knowledge

Stack & domain

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsPostgreSQLGoogle CloudKubernetesCommunication

About the role

Original posting from Momentic via Ashby

At Momentic, we’re building the future of quality.

We’re building the all-in-one quality platform powered by state of the art agents to help our customers ensure quality at every stage of the SDLC.

Top engineering teams at companies like Notion, Bilt, Quora, and Xero use Momentic to ship high quality product. Millions of Momentic tests are executed every single day.

Our product has a very large problem space so there’s a ton of stuff to build and take ownership of - we’d be excited to get your help as we're hiring several extremely talented software engineers across the stack.

The product

  • The AI-native automated testing platform
  • Incredibly sticky. Our customers run us on every pull request and merge and before each deploy as quality gates
  • Leagues ahead of the status quo today (think Selenium/Cypress/Playwright)
  • Check out the demo video on our website https://momentic.ai

About us

  • We’re a lean team of 17 (ex Robinhood, Retool, WeWork, Qualtrics, Assembled)
  • Located in-person San Francisco (650 5th St.)
  • Recent Series A raise of $15M led by Standard Capital, with participation from existing investors - Y Combinator, FCVC, and Transpose Platform.

You’re perfect for this role if…

  • You enjoy solving hard problems that have both product and technical ambiguity
  • You have strong engineering fundamentals, code efficiently, and you know what you're great at and what you're less great at
  • You dislike meetings and would much rather focus your time on building, being productive, and shipping code
  • You thrive when you have autonomy, own as many of the details as possible, and project manage your own work
  • You're in SF or you're willing to relocate, you love working in-person, and you're serious about joining us to build a culture we'll all love

Must-have qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on and extensive TypeScript proficiency
  • Proficiency with React.
  • Have great written and verbal communication.

Nice to have

  • Proficiency with Next.js.
  • Experience building AI products
  • Experience building developer tools
  • Experience working with browser internals like Chrome DevTools Protocol

Our stack

React, TypeScript, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Google Cloud, Kubernetes

Benefits

  • Competitive Medical, Vision, Dental insurance
  • 401K
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Offsites and events (Lake Tahoe this year!)
  • Fully stocked kitchen

Sponsorship

We can't sponsor/transfer H1B Visas or Green Cards (I-140) at this time.

Source: Momentic careers (Ashby)

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