Founding Engineer

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: 3+ years
• Visa: US citizenship/visa not required

TLDR: Applying to jobs sucks. Reading a job description isn’t much better. If you’re right for this, we should already be talking, not sorting your CV into a pile of four hundred. That’s the thing we’re building Tsenta to kill. Every hiring platform was built for the company doing the hiring. We’re building the first one that works for the candidate

$2.5M ARR in 3 months. 70% of our users get an interview, at places like Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, and Jane Street. Our job is to make that 100%, and you’d be our first full time engineering hire.

What you’ll do

• Talk to users. Constantly. We spend a large share of every week on calls with people in the middle of a job search, and you will too. This is not a role where someone else gathers feedback and files it. You hear the problem, you ship the fix or the feature, you call the person back.
• Define your own roadmap. You won’t be handed a spec. You’ll use your own product sense to decide what to build, scope it down to an MVP, ship it, and see whether it moved anything.
• Ship to production in your first week and own a user-visible metric within your first month.
• Set the engineering bar for everyone we hire after you.

What we’re looking for

• You are highly technical: preferred you have prior experience shipping production software by real users as a software engineer at a tech company or startup. But hustlers are always appreciated.
• Strong TypeScript and real backend depth. You don’t need our exact stack. You do need to have owned a production, queue-driven system end to end.