Founding Engineer

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: Any (new grads ok)
• Visa: US citizenship/visa not required
• Skills: TypeScript

You’ll join as one of Elyra’s earliest hires and help build the intelligence behind the world’s best restaurants. Your code won’t simply live behind a screen, it will run live service, fill dining rooms, and shape what restaurant software becomes next. From the moment you ship, its impact is felt across thousands of guest interactions.

• Guest-facing agents. AI agents that answer real phone calls, handle email end-to-end, and manage online bookings, all working together to give every guest a fast, personal response.
• An agent-operated platform. An internal agent lets restaurant teams run and configure Elyra through conversation, from onboarding a restaurant and adjusting opening hours to changing floor plans, without spending hours in settings pages.
• A unified knowledge brain. One shared source of truth on guests, visit history, preferences, tables, and house rules that agents and staff both work from. The voice agent on a call and the host at the door know the same things.
• The engine underneath. A real-time availability engine computing bookable slots across floor plans, table combinations, and party sizes hundreds of thousands of times a day. It needs to be fast enough to answer a voice agent mid-sentence and smart enough to place a guest where the human host would.

What we’re looking for

• A strong product engineer who ships end-to-end: you take a problem from idea to production and own the result.
• Fluent in TypeScript and comfortable across the stack (we run React, Hono, and Postgres/Supabase in a strictly-typed monorepo).