{"id":1245458,"url":"https://alion.io/job/booko-founding-engineer","title":"Founding Engineer","company":{"id":3779763,"name":"Booko","domain":"bookoapp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/booko-2","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Work at a Startup","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":140000,"max":220000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":220000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-25T17:26:08Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-25","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T00:06:59Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Why Booko?\nBooko gives every service business the revenue superpowers that, until now, only the largest companies in the world could afford.\nEvery hour that goes unsold converts to zero. Uber, airlines and hotels solved this with a hundred math PhDs figuring out demand and pricing. The rest of the service economy - fitness studios, med-spas, event and entertainment venues, salons, tours, anything you can book - has the same problem. They just haven't had the hundred math PhDs.\nAI collapsed that cost. Booko embeds into the systems a business already runs on, builds a superintelligent brain around its demand, and deploys that intelligence across the business - dynamic pricing first, then marketing, staffing, and scheduling. It runs quietly in the background like a revenue team they never had.\nYou used to need a hundred math PhDs. Now you don't.\nRole Overview:\nYou will own large parts of the product from idea to production. That includes the pricing console venue operators use, integrations with the systems they already run, and the workflows that turn forecasts into real pricing decisions.\nThis is a high-agency role. You will talk to customers, make product calls, write the code, ship it, and own the result.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nBuild and own full-stack product surfaces end to end\nShip integrations into booking, ticketing, and venue systems\nTurn messy customer problems into reliable software\nWork across product, data, infrastructure, and customer deployment\nHelp shape the engineering culture and roadmap as an early hire\nWhat You Have:\nStrong generalist engineering\nComfort with customers\nSharp product judgment\nStrong appetite for ownership\nExcited to work in person with a small, ambitious team in the Bay Area\nWhat we offer:\nCompetitive, top-of-market salary\nEquity with real upside - you're joining early, and your equity reflects that\nRelocation support to San Francisco\nM5 Pro MacBook Pro and whatever else you need\nAll meals covered (coffee, lunch, dinner, snacks)\nRegular team offsites\nKnow someone exceptional? We pay a $5,000 referral bonus for a successful full-time engineering hire.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2113,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Apple Macbook","Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":["Corporate Events"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T17:26:08Z"}],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":42,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":220000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/booko-founding-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/booko-founding-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T01:55:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1743,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3257,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}