Founding Software Engineer
Please read in full: As a founding engineer, you’ll work across our entire stack to build and scale our contextual advertising network for AI tools. You’ll have significant influence over technical direction and full autonomy. Our immediate priority is backend engineering, but full-stack experience is a strong bonus.
Compensation and what we offer:
- Salary Range: $150,000 – $300,000 USD, depending on experience and scope of contribution
- Equity: Ranging from $100,000 – $300,000 USD based on experience and contribution
- Location: Remote to start. We plan to establish an office in San Francisco, California, where the role will transition to on-site.
Company Background
- Gravity is an advertising network for AI chat
- Enables advertisers to embed ads in relevant conversations
- Ads write themselves using AI
- Launched 3 months ago
- 16M users on installed platforms
- $500M/year advertiser spend waiting to onboard
- Delivered impressions scaling 10x MoM as we connect supply with demand
- Competing head-to-head with two other credible platforms — and moving faster.
Responsibilities
As a founding engineer, you’ll be working on:
- Building and scaling core infrastructure
- Solving novel technical and product challenges with high ambiguity
- Driving technical direction with high ownership and autonomy
What We’re Looking For
- Solving problems with the end user in mind
- Full-stack development experience
- Strong problem-solving ability in ambiguous technical/product areas
- Experience building and scaling distributed systems
- Practical experience with LLMs and AI infrastructure
- Proven track record of ownership and autonomous execution
- Strong communication skills
Why Join Us
- Solve cutting-edge advertising challenges with AI
- Shape the future of generative advertising
- Operate in a flat hierarchy with high ownership and autonomy
- Competitive compensation and equity
- Be part of a small, talented, fast-moving founding team in San Francisco
Interview ProcessInitial screening with CEO45-minute technical interviewOnsite interview with CEO (video call for non-SF applicants)
