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Founding Engineer

None Full-time Remote $50 — $70 hourly 09/10/2026 Job ID: 000166
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Software Architecture Backend Development API Design AI/LLM Applications Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Summary

What you’ll impact

The Founding Engineer will work directly with the CEO to architect and build the organization’s core AI-native platform from the ground up, developing backend services, APIs, and AI-powered workflows. This remote, full‑time role offers founding‑level ownership of product, architecture, and technical strategy with compensation of $50–$70 per hour.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Architect and build KIASA’s core platform from the ground up.
  • Develop production backend services, APIs, and customer-facing features.
  • Build AI and LLM-powered product workflows, including RAG, semantic search, and embeddings.
  • Design databases, data models, queues, and asynchronous workflows.
  • Integrate external APIs, models, and third-party platforms.
  • Build reliable authentication, authorization, and data-access patterns.
  • Deploy and operate services in cloud environments such as AWS or Azure.
  • Work with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Establish monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting systems.
  • Improve application performance, reliability, security, and infrastructure cost.
  • Debug problems across application, AI, data, and infrastructure layers.
  • Make technology-selection and build-vs-buy decisions.
  • Review architecture and code.
  • Work directly with the CEO on technical and product priorities.
  • Help interview, hire, and mentor future engineers.
  • Help establish the engineering culture and technical standards of the company.

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Significant professional software engineering experience and a track record of building production systems.
  • Comfort owning problems rather than only implementing predefined tickets.
  • Experience with backend architecture, APIs, databases, distributed systems, AI/LLM applications, cloud infrastructure, deployment, observability, system reliability, and technical decision-making.
  • Experience as a Senior, Staff, Principal, Lead, Founding, or early-stage startup engineer.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including experience with languages such as Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, or Java.
  • Ability to take an ambiguous problem, understand what needs to be built, make sensible technical decisions, implement the solution, deploy it, and improve it based on real usage.
  • Capability to grow into a broader engineering leadership role while remaining technically strong and hands‑on.

Ready to Move Forward?

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Intelatek is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration based on qualifications, merit, and business need, without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. Need an accommodation? Email accommodations@intelatek.co.