Vacancy: Founding Engineer
Unimatch Lab - AI driven Venture Studio from Silicon Valley.
We are building a portfolio of AI-driven products: consumer AI products, smart devices, local LLM clusters, memory layer, orchestration, AI software for infrastructure and computing.
What you will do:
- Design and implement backend: models, APIs, authorization, migrations, background tasks
- Connect frontend or mobile as required
- Perform integrations
- Configure CI/CD, staging, production release, rollback
- Prepare a minimal runbook and README
- Show demos during the cycle and hand over the finished result
Must have:
- 5+ years of experience as a full-stack JS engineer
- Strong backend with Node.js / TypeScript
- Experience with production releases
- Ability to independently build a solution from task to deployment
- Product mindset: narrow down scope, choose MVP, explain trade-offs
- Experience with AI-assisted development: Cursor, Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or similar
- Portfolio, code, demo, PR, or other artifacts
- English from B1
Bonus points:
- Experience in product companies, startups, or venture studios
- LLM / RAG / agents / vector DBs
- LangChain, LangGraph, OpenAI, Claude, MCP
- Next.js, React Native, Expo, GraphQL
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Langfuse, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar
Important:
A profile with primarily frontend experience will not be suitable. We need an engineer who confidently handles backend, delivery, and production.