Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff)

Variant is an early-stage venture firm investing in crypto networks & platforms building The Ownership Economy.

Location: San Francisco, CA
Company size: 5–20
Posted: 2d ago
Via: Yc

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Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff) · Variant

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Job title: Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff)
Job location: San Francisco, CA, US
Job listing URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/variant/jobs/23RX4ZO-founding-agentic-backend-engineer-senior-staff
Job description: ## About the role **Software should be beautiful.** Variant is code generation with creativity and taste. Instead of a confined conversation, you can generate endless designs from a single idea. Freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result. We're well-capitalized and looking for a **founding engineer** to own the back end of Variant, where our agents operate. \ **The ideal candidate:** * At least one of: * Has done impactful work at a company known for its high-quality backend or agentic applications * Majorly contributed to a notable open source project * Has a seriously impressive portfolio * Has experience building agentic applications with sophisticated harnesses and orchestration * Has built the backend for an app that manages complex project state * Knows that building a startup is really hard work and is fully committed * Doesn’t compromise between quality and shipping fast * See what needs to be done and does it * Under promises, over delivers * Know when to be outspoken or disagree and commit \ \*\*We hold ourselves to these same principles.\*\*\ \ We've kept our team small by design. Your code will matter from day one, and its impact will compound over time. **This will be the most meaningful work of your career**.\ \ We work from a beautiful space in San Francisco where we dream up the future and make it real together. We’re well-capitalized and backed by notable investors.\ \ If you've built things you're proud of, we'd love to see them. # About Variant **Software should be beautiful.** Variant generates software that’s actually well designed. Instead of a confined conversation, it creates endless designs from a single idea. You can freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result. We call this generative creativity. And it’s how creating software should work.

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