Founding Member of Technical Staff

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• Role: Engineering / Full stack
• Experience: 6+ years
• Visa: US citizen/visa only
• Skills: Python, TypeScript, AI Agents

About Ignition

Ignition Benefits is the AI-native employee-benefits brokerage for companies with 25–200 employees. We believe the $900B+ employer benefits market is broken: opaque, manual, and stuck in the 1990s. We are changing that with technology, transparency, and a radically better client experience. We're backed by Y Combinator and Equal Ventures, and our CEO previously built and sold Plated for $300M, the largest exit in Shark Tank history. You are joining a team that knows how to build and scale.

Where You'll Create Impact

• Build full-stack web apps our customers and our own ops team use every day
• Ship features end to end — architecture, CI/CD, testing, monitoring, and beyond
• Build AI agents and durable workflows that run our back office — processes that run for weeks, wait on external systems, and resume where they left off
• Put agents in production, not in demos — human approval, evals, observability, etc
• Integrate third-party tools and external systems, proactively managing edge cases and risk
• Debug hard production issues and fix them for good
• Raise the bar through code reviews and technical discussions

What Sets You Up for Success

• 5+ years in full-stack engineering (TypeScript/Node.js/PostgreSQL/React and modern backend/frontend tooling and frameworks)
• Deep experience with complex business-logic products
• Solid understanding of system design, data schema design, and scalability