Founding Engineer; Dreamlever

Dream Lever / MilesAI Inc. New York City preferred (Hybrid)

Visit our website at https://www.dreamlever.ai/

Dream Lever is the AI a company shares. It learns the business through meeting conversations, connects what's happening across people, teams, and goals, and uses AI agents to move work forward.

Founded by Brandon Katz, a former Chief of Staff who helped scale a company from 35 to more than 250 people, Dream Lever turns firsthand experience building and running a company's management system into software. The product is live with paying customers, including a company with roughly 145 weekly active users across departments.

Our external engineering partner, Scope Labs, helped build the product and continues to contribute, providing engineering support and knowledge of the existing system as we build our in-house team.

As Dream Lever's first in-house engineer, you'll lead technical execution on a live, customer-facing product. This is a hands-on leadership role: you'll write code every day, make engineering decisions, and turn product priorities into polished software.

You're energized by building and take pride in exceptional output. You'll work closely with the founder to understand the vision, translate detailed direction and prototypes into code, and move quickly from feedback to shipped improvements. Strong product judgment and UI/UX instincts help you resolve details, find efficient solutions, and deliver the intended customer experience.

This is a close working relationship with the company's founder. Expect intensive working sessions—reviewing prototypes, debating product decisions, then moving straight into building. The founder leads the product and prototyping in detail; you decide how it gets built.

You will own technical execution, drawing on the support of Scope Labs, our external engineering partner, whose team includes product managers, front-end engineers, and full-stack developers with deep knowledge of the existing system. You'll coordinate development with the founder, decide what to build autonomously and what to delegate to Scope Labs, and oversee execution to ensure we meet our product goals.

• Ship high-impact product improvements quickly. Build across the full stack, using coding agents effectively to accelerate development and ship well-tested code daily.

• Turn product intent into working software. Take founder direction, design prototypes, and detailed feedback through implementation and polish. Resolve gaps and edge cases, and verify that the finished experience achieves the intended customer outcome.

• Learn the existing system deeply and quickly. Understand the architecture, integrations, data flows, and technical risks well enough to make sound decisions and confidently build upon a live codebase.

• Improve Miles's AI quality. Develop how Miles, the Dream Lever system's AI Chief of Staff agent, uses company context, evaluates information, and takes action. Evaluate its outputs, investigate failures, and iterate on usefulness and reliability.

• Drive coordinated, dependable delivery. Break priorities into clear work, make realistic commitments, and communicate risks early. Direct and review work delegated to Scope Labs, our external development partner, and hold the line on quality and dates across the full development team.

• Contribute practical product ideas. Bring creative solutions, strong UI/UX judgment, and ideas from software and productivity tools you know well. Use these insights to improve the customer experience.

• Keep the engineering foundation clear and reliable. Maintain organized code, consistent naming, and useful documentation. Improve testing, observability, and deployment where they make development faster and safer.

An exceptionally productive builder. You love writing software and have a track record of shipping substantial production work quickly. You use coding agents fluently, manage multiple streams of work effectively, and take responsibility for the quality of the result.

Quick to understand, quick to execute. You get oriented in unfamiliar codebases, grasp product intent, and turn direction into working software without extensive task‑by‑task instruction. You ask focused questions, get the context you need, and act decisively.

Focused on outcomes. You understand what a change is supposed to accomplish for the customer, and follow through until the intended outcome is achieved. You are relentless about what matters,…