Founding Engineer at Agave (W22)
$110K - $140K • 0.10% - 0.40%
Plaid for Construction
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Any (new grads ok)
About Agave
We’re building dev tools (e.g. APIs) for the $12T construction industry. We're making it easier for SaaS Companies to build better software faster, and equipping construction companies (e.g. General Contractors) with world-class data infra tools.
About the role
Skills: PHP, React, TypeScript, Software Architecture, Software Security, PostgreSQL
tl;dr: back-end/full-stack software engineer (second hire) at Seed-stage API startup in construction.
Compensation:
- Salary: $110k-$140k
- Equity: 0.1%-0.4%
What we’re looking for:
- Back-end/full-stack engineer, ideally w/ 1-4 years experience building complex systems quickly.
- Note: we're open to exceptional college grads with some industry experience (e.g. internship).
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, multi-tenant systems, and building dev tools (e.g. APIs).
- Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team.
- Excited to be our next hire; passion for building a world-class engineering culture.
- Pumped to work in-person with us in SF 5 days/week
Stack:
- Backend: PHP Laravel...why PHP?
- We have extensive experience using PHP to scale Alexa's NLP to 100M users.
- From YC: https://youtu.be/rP7bpYsfa6Q?t=992
- Good HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35896954
- Frontend: TypeScript, React
- Infra: Redis, Postgres, AWS - CDK, EC2
More about us:
- We’re building dev tools (APIs + Analytics) for construction, an unsexy-but-huge industry with tons of fragmented systems. We're making it easier for SaaS Companies to build better software faster, and equipping construction companies (e.g. General Contractors) with world-class data infrastructure to better run their projects.
- Our founding team has worked together for 8 years, first at Graphiq (acq. by Amazon) then at Amazon.
- We raised $3M in 2022 from YC, Accel, founders of Plaid, and founders/execs at Procore, Autodesk, PlanGrid, Fieldwire, and others.
- We’re growing like crazy (20% every month), and are hiring top engineers to help us satisfy customer demand.
Benefits:
- Healthcare: we cover 90% of your healthcare costs with several plan options.
- 401k: we match 100% of your contributions, up to 4% of annual salary.
- Workspace: $1,500 to spend on items like chairs, desks, monitors, etc.
- Mansion: work from our office, a 5BR manor 15min. from downtown SF just off the 280 and 101. Every window has an ocean view.
- Gym: on-site gym with Peloton, squat rack, Tempo, Yoga setup, and more.
Technology
Happy to provide to applicants who express interest.
Interview Process
At each stage, we decide within 24hrs and update you shortly after.
Phone Screen 1 (10-20min.):
- Virtual meeting
- Informal chat for you to learn more about the role.
- We'll ask for details on past projects. We want to know that you can code, and speak about your work clearly.
- You’re welcome to ask lots of questions about whether working at Agave makes sense for you.
Phone Screen 2 (30-45min.):
- Virtual meeting
- We'll dive into the details of your most technically complex or challenging projects. Our goal is to ensure you've worked on sufficiently challenging projects to ensure you'll be successful if you join us full-time.
- We'll also reserve 5-10min to answer any questions you have about Agave.
Tech Screen 1 (40-60min.):
- Virtual meeting
- You'll meet with our lead dev. He’ll ask you 1-2 coding questions in your language of preference. We’ll test how you write, test, and debug solutions, and identify tradeoffs.
Tech Screen 2 (40-60min.):
- Virtual meeting
- Similar to Tech Screen 1, but with our CTO.
Interview (1hr x 5 people):
- In-person meeting
- You'll interview with each co-founder and our lead dev. This will be a deeper dive into your technical abilities and overall fit. Each interview is 1hr, 45min for our questions and 15min for yours.
- For the technical portion:
- Systems Design: you'll be asked questions to identify trade-offs when building systems that collect, store, and present data.
- Coding Exercise: you'll be asked questions about how you write, test, and debug solutions, and identify tradeoffs.
- For the “fit” portion:
- We look for examples of ownership and autonomy, but also dig deeper into communication (i.e. how you communicate your approach, solutions, and overall thinking).
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