Founding Engineer
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
About ReworkdAt Reworkd, we’re working on multi-modal LLM agents to extract structured web data at scale. Since inception, Reworkd has been one of the leaders in AI Agents, having built and scaled AgentGPT to over 1M+ monthly users.
We are a team of engineers and operators from leading CS universities such as UBC, CMU and SFU. Our team has prior experience at organizations such as AWS, Article and Microsoft. Currently a small, fast moving team of four, we’ve built every layer our our LLM/Agent stack including: evals, prompt design, LLM/Agent routing and custom OCR pipelines.
Additionally, we’re backed by top to tier investors including YCombinator, SV Angel, General Catalyst, Panache Ventures, and many more.
About your role:As a founding backend engineer at Reworkd, you will help shape the future of LLM agents taking web actions. In your first month you may:Build a robust queuing system to handle 1M+ compute heavy (playwright) jobs a dayMigrate an existing pool of batch workers off of AWS to bare metalEnhance autoscaling / deployment strategy using K8s or similar technologiesGive our code generation agents additional superpowers (eg: captcha solving. crawling, etc…)
ResponsibilitiesLeading and collaborating on mission critical features / bugsPromoting engineering best practices throughout the rest of the teamEnsuring that our tech stack is able to scale with our hyper growth
Qualifications and Skills:Located in the bay area or able to relocate to the bay areaExpertise in writing production grade python (+typescript). Bonus if you have experience with NextJS, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy/SQLModel.Prior experience building and managing distributed / batch job systemsProficiency with optimizing queries in MySQL, Postgres, or similar SQL based databaseExperienced with hosting on AWS and/or bare metal (knowledge of K8s is a plus)Prior experience as an operator or founding employee at another startupDeep knowledge of modern web automation techniques (eg: selenium, playwright, CDP protocol, proxies etc..)Ability to operate with a high sense of agency
Compensation:The base compensation for this role is $130,000 - $170,000 USD per year. In addition, you will also receive equity-based compensation, a top tier medical / dental / vision plan, and unlimited PTO. In addition, we also host weekly team outings, team dinners and will even give you a haircut (no seriously, our COO is a barber).
Interview Process:We like to keep interview loops short but want actual in person working sessions so each of us can determine if we’re the right fitFirst step: 30 min intro call with a founderSecond step: 1 hour call with founding team + pair programming sessionsThird step: Two paid weeks of in person work, this is your chance to make sure we are also a good fit for you.Decision: we'll get back to you within a week of the final interview.
Reworkd is committed to fostering and empowering an inclusive community within our organization. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Reworkd encourages everyone to apply for our available positions, even if they don't necessarily check every box on the job description.
Reworkd is an in-person company, our brand new office is located in the heart of San Francisco. Successful candidates will be required to relocate if they do not already live in the bay area.
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