# [Remote] Founding Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whym is hiring a Founding Engineer to build its product across backend services, data systems, infrastructure, and mobile and web apps. The role also contributes to product decisions, prototypes, user research, and customer support at an early-stage startup. Responsibilities Backend services and APIs. Design and ship the services Whym runs on. Data modeling, async work, performance, reliability. You own how the client and server fit together Data and pipelines. Build the plumbing that moves activity data, user signals, and analytics through the system. Partner with Lynn, our Head of Search and Discovery, on the data layer that feeds ranking and eval Mobile and web. Contribute to the apps users hold in their hands. Architecture, performance, and feature work across mobile and web. You do not need to lead this surface, but you do need to be able to ship on it Infra and developer experience. Touch CI, observability, and deploy when it unblocks the team. Raise the floor on how fast we can ship without breaking things Prototypes and research. Build throwaway prototypes to answer product questions. Sit in on user research a

- **Id**: 3722690
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/whym-remote-founding-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: closed
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T01:29:56Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-04T09:38:30Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Closed at**: 2026-11-04T09:38:30Z
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4073
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4506359
- **Name**: Whym
- **Domain**: whym.co
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/whym-3>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no

## Technologies

- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no
- **React Native** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **React.js** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T03:20:50Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T09:38:30Z

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