Software Engineers

About the Opportunities

Continuum Recruiting works with a portfolio of venture-backed AI and technology companies hiring exceptional Founding, Early-Stage, and high-ownership Software Engineers. We are interested in meeting strong engineers for multiple current and upcoming opportunities rather than a single specific opening.

These companies range from very early founding teams to rapidly scaling startups. While the exact stack and product vary, the common denominator is a need for well-rounded builders who can take ambiguous problems, make sound technical and product decisions, and ship production software end-to-end.

Many of the opportunities are AI-native and involve applied AI, LLMs, agentic systems, developer tooling, data infrastructure, or AI-enabled vertical software. Others are broader product and platform engineering roles where strong software fundamentals and 0-to-1 execution matter most.

What You May Work On

• Own products, features, or core systems from initial concept and architecture through production deployment.

• Build across the stack, including backend services, APIs, data infrastructure, frontend/product surfaces, and cloud systems.

• Develop AI-native products and workflows using LLMs, agents, tool integrations, retrieval systems, and modern AI development tools where relevant.

• Make pragmatic architecture and product decisions in environments with limited process and incomplete requirements.

• Work directly with founders, customers, and other stakeholders to identify problems and translate them into shipped software.

• Build integrations with external APIs, business systems, data sources, and third-party platforms.

• Establish engineering patterns, tooling, testing, observability, and best practices as teams scale.

• Help shape engineering culture and, in some roles, mentor or lead engineers who join after you.

Requirements

What We’re Generally Looking For

• Strong professional software engineering experience with evidence of shipping production systems.

• End-to-end ownership: you can move from an ambiguous problem to a working production solution without requiring a detailed specification.

• Strong backend, full-stack, product engineering, or systems engineering fundamentals.

• Experience with one or more modern production languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or Rust.

• Comfort working across multiple layers of a product rather than being limited to a very narrow specialty.

• High agency, strong problem-solving ability, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments.