Founding Software Engineer

The Role

As we continue to scale our product, we're seeking a resourceful, product-focused founding engineer to help us build a world-class firmware development platform from the ground up. This is a hands-on role - you'll report directly to the CTO and work closely with the CEO, exercising real ownership over the BootLoop product portfolio. As the company grows, you’ll help create a team of incredible engineers around you.

What You'll Do

• Own major product areas end-to-end. Conceive, design, and implement product features across our desktop application and cloud stack in close collaboration with customers

• Build systems that handle complex technical requirements for engineering customers building mission-critical systems

• Build world-class user experiences that raise the bar for firmware developer tooling

• Collaborate with founders on product strategy, technical feasibility, and platform decisions

• Define and evolve a technical roadmap across our entire product portfolio, steering technology stack and development practices based on what's actually driving results

• For example, you might:

  • Build a zero-error computer vision system for extracting information from hardware documentation

  • Create ontologies for chip and sensor systems to unify datasets across many domains

  • Design agentic flows across firmware development verticals, from debugging to real-time triage and root-cause analysis

About You

• 4+ years in software development, with significant experience building products for highly-technical users (engineers, developers, technical teams)

• Track record of shipping 0-to-1 products independently at early-stage companies

• Full-stack technical expertise - you can architect, implement, debug, and deploy across frontend, backend and all technologies in between

• Experience with web technologies (React, Node.js) and Python

• Developer tools or infrastructure experience - you understand engineer workflows and pain points deeply

• Data-driven approach to building, measuring impact, and iterating quickly

Nice to Have

• Embedded development or firmware experience working with hardware, real-time systems, and low-level code

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation: $200k-325k base salary

• Significant equity: 2.5 - 4.5% stake in a seed-stage company as founding engineer

• High-impact role: You'll define how this product gets built and own critical features end-to-end

• Direct founder access: Work side-by-side with CEO/CTO daily, shape company strategy

• Cutting-edge product: Build something genuinely innovative that helps companies build world-changing technologies

• Health & benefits: Comprehensive health insurance, unlimited PTO, relocation compensation