At Falconer, we’re transforming how engineers create, access, and share knowledge. We’re looking for a Founding Full-Stack Engineer to help us build an AI-powered knowledge platform that companies love.

As a founding engineer, you won’t just help shape our product development—you’ll have a seat at the table to define Falconer’s technical direction and culture.

We are venture-backed, with a phenomenal founding team from Stripe, Meta, and Uber.

Key responsibilities:

• Participate in the entire product development lifecycle, including architecture, coding, testing, and deploying

• Translate UI/UX designs into high-quality, visually appealing and responsive web applications

• Develop and maintain frontend and backend systems including API services, databases, and server-side logic

• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability

• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code, following industry best practices—the Falconer platform will help you!

• Stay updated with emerging technologies in web development and make recommendations for adopting new tools and practices

Who you are:

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent work experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in developing web-based applications

• Strong proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and WebSockets

• Experience with server-side languages (we'll gravitate towards Python and Node.js)

• Hands-on experience with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL)

• You enjoy hard problems and open-ended assignments

• You use data to make decisions, and experiment your way around hard problems

Bonus points:

• You've developed products with LLMs before (extra if you've already built your own agents)

• You're familiar with vector databases and similarity search

• You have experience with event queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

• You understand Docker or Kubernetes

• You know your way around AWS or Google Cloud

Perks and benefits:

• Generous equity package

• Competitive salary and benefits

• 401(k) retirement account

• The best equipment and tools, like a spec'd out MacBook, and dev prod tools like Cursor, Claude, and Linear to help you move fast

• Flexible work arrangements with in-office work or hybrid/remote work for the right candidate

• Our current office is in San Mateo, just steps from Caltrain