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Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CA
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Metrics Recruitment is seeking a customer-obsessed Full-Stack Engineer for an early stage startup that is building the world’s first general purpose code optimizer for Python. It automatically improves the performance of Python code by improving the algorithms and logic while guaranteeing the correctness of the newly generated code. This role is a 60/40% Typescript/Python position.


Requirements:

  • Quick learner: can pick up new tools, frameworks or libraries same-day by learning through doing; not afraid to use AI tools to help get started
  • Customer-Obsessed: builds things by testing them with actual users and their reaction guides what to build next
  • Curious: hungry to learn new things, especially new frameworks or libraries
  • Hacker: Knows when to take on tech debt to ship a new quick and dirty implementation vs when to polish; can “build for the demo”; can “build one to throw away”; competitive programming or math olympiad experience a major plus
  • Has experience quickly shipping and iterating on real web products used and loved by users.
  • Strong TypeScript and React experience (Nextjs a plus) in production environments.
  • Good understanding of Python and programming language fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of and already using AI tools daily is a major plus.


Outcomes:

  • Build and iterate on all user-facing surfaces of the product: the webapp, github app comments, etc.
  • Ship and own a new dashboard that lets users to be informed and act on optimizations. (in the first month)
  • Get and implement feedback by users of the GitHub app.
  • Put in place automation around deployment and code quality to speed up our iteration cycles.


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