# Founding Engineer (Backend)

Location: San Francisco, CA (On-site, 5 days/week) Role We're looking for a backend-leaning Founding Engineer (0-7 years experience) who has shipped production software at a pedigreed company - FAANG, high-growth VC- backed startups (Series A+), or equivalent. You'll own projects end-to-end in a fast- moving, early-stage environment and help shape the core infrastructure that AI agents use to communicate and operate in the real world. What You'll Do Build and design APIs and backend infrastructure that AI agents use to communicate, authenticate, and operate Own 0→1 projects end-to-end - from scoping customer requirements through system design to production rollout (e.g., IMAP integration, usage-based pricing systems) Work across the full stack (~80% backend, ~20% frontend/other), touching distributed systems, databases, and developer tooling Proactively pitch ideas - you're expected to bring product and growth thinking, not just execute tickets Be a frontline point of contact for customer feedback and support enterprise deployments Write clear, maintainable code and documentation while processing hundreds of thousands of emails per day What We're Looking For Strong proficiency

- **Id**: 3944218
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/remotestar-founding-engineer-backend>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-08T18:10:45Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-08
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T14:06:20Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2197
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: yes

## Company

- **Id**: 4526839
- **Name**: RemoteStar
- **Domain**: remotestar.io
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/remotestar>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Freshteam

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T18:10:45Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 3; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 3 of its adverts here in 24 months; Cap exempt: no

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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