# Founding Engineer

About Tightknit Tightknit is the community platform built for Slack. We help B2B teams grow engaged communities with events, gamification, SEO, and branded spaces, all with a deep integration into Slack. We believe communities deserve better, and we build alongside the customers, advocates, and partners who use our product. Engineering Culture At Tightknit we are committed to only hiring *“Hell yeah!”*s and not “meh”s. We believe an awesome culture is a natural byproduct of an awesome team. Here are qualities we strive for: Extreme Ownership: Take pride in your work, own features completely, and fix issues even when they fall outside your exact domain. Strong Opinions, Weakly Held: We want opinionated people who will push back on plans they disagree with, but who will commit fully once a decision is made. Thick Skin, Not Thick Skulls: We welcome debate without taking it personally, knowing that critique is a gift. Be a Pioneer: You are comfortable buildings systems around you from scratch. Hustle with Purpose, not Polish: Stay scrappy. Iterate quickly. No Energy Vampires: We have a strict "We > Me" mentality and will not tolerate high-blame mentalities, territorial behavior, or ove

- **Id**: 1228188
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tightknit-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: US, CA
- **Hiring countries total**: 2
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-11T22:24:37Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-11
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T12:27:49Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 61
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10312
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Health insurance, Parental leave, Stock options, Unlimited PTO
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Online Forums & Community Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 1764527
- **Name**: Tightknit
- **Domain**: tightknit.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tightknit>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Rippling

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 168000
- **Max usd**: 286000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 512

## Technologies

- **Slack** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: yes
- **Canva** — Optional: yes
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Cloudflare** — Optional: yes
- **Cursor** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **Linear** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Next.js** — Optional: yes
- **Node JS** — Optional: yes
- **Notion** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes
- **Sentry** — Optional: yes
- **Supabase** — Optional: yes
- **Tailwind CSS** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes
- **Vercel** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 61

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **Canada** — Iso: CA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T13:55:28Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 15
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.549
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 61
- **Expected fill days**: 28
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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