{"id":1225731,"url":"https://alion.io/job/signett-founding-product-engineer-developer-adoption","title":"Founding Product Engineer, Developer Adoption","company":{"id":3798426,"name":"Signett","domain":"signett.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/signett","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Product","role_family":"Product","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["IN"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":2500000,"max":5000000,"currency":"INR","period":"year","gross":true,"usd_annual":52410},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Cypress","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"Model Context Protocol","optional":false},{"name":"Next.js","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-11T12:41:30Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-09-11T12:41:30Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":15,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":15},"description":"The web is about to gain a second interface\n\nToday, websites are designed for people. Agents must interpret pages, hunt for controls, and imitate clicks to accomplish anything.\n\nWe believe that will change. Websites will expose their capabilities directly to agents: structured, testable interfaces that work alongside the human experience. WebMCP is an early step toward that future. Signett is building the developer platform around it.\n\nOur goal is to make creating an excellent agent interface as normal as building an API or testing a user interface.\n\nThe foundational product already exists. Signett has a public TypeScript library, documentation, benchmarks, real-world integrations, a website, and a Chrome extension. You would not be joining to turn a slide deck into an MVP. You would be joining to discover what makes a promising product become something developers genuinely adopt.\n\nSee it at signett.ai.\n\nThe opportunity\n\nYou would be Signett’s first hire and would have unusual ownership over the product’s direction.\nYour job is to run one loop repeatedly:\nFind an external developer or team with a real reason to make its website agent-ready.\nWork inside its codebase and ship the integration.\nIdentify what made the process difficult.\nFix that friction yourself—in the library, documentation, testing tools, or extension.\nPublish what you learned so the next integration becomes easier.\nYou will move between engineering, product discovery, developer experience, and early distribution. There will be no handoff between those functions because, initially, you are the person connecting them.\nThe work could help establish how developers build and test agent interfaces for the web. It could also reveal that our present assumptions are wrong. Either outcome requires someone who cares more about finding the truth than defending the existing product.\n\nThe first 90 days\n\nThe initial targets are deliberately concrete:\nFive external teams attempt the 30-minute integration.\nAt least three ship a real workflow without founder intervention.\nTwo remain active or request a paid capability such as shared history, CI, analytics, or evaluations.\nTwo reference integrations and case studies become public.\nBy the end, we should know which part of Signett developers truly value—exposure, testing, reliable execution, the Inspector, evaluations, or something we have not yet recognized.\n\nYou may be a strong fit if you have\nSix to ten years of experience as a product-oriented full-stack or frontend engineer.\nStrong TypeScript, React or Next.js, browser API, and Playwright or Cypress experience.\nBuilt SDKs, developer tools, browser tooling, API infrastructure, or observability products.\nPersonally helped developers adopt something through documentation, examples, workshops, open-source work, or direct integrations.\nEnough commercial instinct to find a design partner, lead the conversation, and turn the resulting work into a useful public case study.\nThe judgment and autonomy to make progress without daily direction.\nClear writing and demonstration skills in addition to strong engineering ability.\n\nExperience with WebMCP or MCP is helpful but not required. Curiosity and the ability to learn an evolving standard matter more. The WebMCP proposal is public at github.com/webmachinelearning/webmcp.\n\nThe anti-sell\n\nSignett has a product, but it does not yet have proven product-market fit. Adoption is the open question, and answering it is the core of this role.\n\nYou should not join if:\nYou want a role devoted entirely to writing code handed to you through a roadmap.\nYou expect someone else to find users, conduct interviews, write documentation, or publish the work.\nYou need a large team, established processes, or daily management to be effective.\nYour experience is primarily managing mature organizations rather than building from ambiguity.\nYour main strength is developer content without production software behind it.\nYou want to research or train models rather than build browser-based products developers use.\nThe uncertainty of an emerging standard makes you uncomfortable.\nYou need the stability and specialization of a conventional engineering position.\n.\nThis is not a comfortable job with a “founding” title attached to it. It is a chance to take a technically serious, public product and prove—or disprove—that it deserves to become an important company.\n\nHow we will start\n\nWe begin with a paid four-to-six-week project involving a real external TypeScript application, not a synthetic coding exercise.\nThe purpose is for both sides to experience the actual work: finding a useful integration, shipping it, learning from developers, and improving Signett. If the collaboration works and the evidence supports continued investment, the intended path is a permanent, full-time role.\nThe work is fully remote. Compensation, location, time-zone overlap, and the terms of the initial project will be discussed transparently before the process begins.\nSkills\nFullstack Developer, TypeScript, Web browsers, Product Management","description_format":"text","description_chars":5059,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"India","iso":"IN","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-25T13:06:44Z"}],"liveness":{"score":45,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":0.85,"p_active":0.713,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":14,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["seen:14","win:late","comp:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":52410,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/signett-founding-product-engineer-developer-adoption","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/signett-founding-product-engineer-developer-adoption.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T01:41:03Z","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":1523,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3477,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}