Founding Software Engineer; Full-Stack

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We’re looking for a Founding Software Engineer (Full-Stack) to join our team in the San Francisco Bay Area. We  focused on solving a big problem: how to make all the annoying tasks outside of your code editor fully agentic; everything from deployment to performance, incidents, and bugs.

You’ll be working directly with me (Daniel). Before Star Sling, I was the Engineering Manager at Netflix working on the most used internal tool for their 3K+ engineers and tens of thousands of microservices an internal developer portal called Netflix Console. Earlier in my career I was an engineer on Facebook’s AI Camera team and helped build the mobile computer vision library that currently powers camera effects for 100M+ DAUs across IG, FB, and Whats App.

I’m obsessed with helping every engineer be more productive.

You’ll also be working directly with my co-founder Yonas. Before Star Sling, Yonas was the Founder & CEO of Stack Share, a developer community used by over 40 million developers. He raised $12M as a first-time founder and did founder sales to get them to just under $1M ARR with their enterprise product before selling the company last year. He’s obsessed with creating product experiences that developers love and building community.

• Event-driven backend:
  Architect our Node.js / Next.js / Type Script and Supabase stack. Design schemas, event flows and ingest dev tools webhooks to power a real-time personalized engineering portal.
• LLM Agentic Workflows:
  Build a system of agents MCP, tool use, memory, retry logic, context updates, feedback mechanisms.
• Agent Experience (AX):
  Create intuitive product interfaces for human-agent interactions. Explore and iterate with engineers to find the right interaction paradigm to productivity work with a digital co-pilot.
• System Design & Technical Strategy:
  Work directly with me to determine the best technical path that balances moving fast and scaling to many customers using different dev tools. Determine how we integrate and support the open-source community.

• You’re a full-stack 0-to-1 builder who has shipped to production. Especially in rapidly shipping NextJS apps and working with event-based systems in a serverless architecture.
• You have a genuine curiosity about agentic product experiences and are excited about understanding the impact of AI on engineering users.
• You’re a previous founder or founding engineer. You have built something from scratch that people use or pay for.
• You’re unusually obsessed with hard problems. Your current skills or even what you  done before is less important than your ability to go all-in and accomplish anything that you set your mind to.
• You’re comfortable with ambiguity and adapting to dynamic priorities. You need to have good judgement to know when to let little fires burn and when to immediately jump in.
• You have excellent communication and candor. You’ll be communicating directly with engineers and collaborating with us on key decisions.
• You care about helping swamped engineers fight through the schlep of software development. If that  not an exciting mission for you, it will be hard to stay motivated through the inevitable highs and lows.
• You have grit and perseverance. You should accustomed to picking between hard options and pushing through it.

• You  not based in The Bay Area (we  be a team of four if you join so we  be sitting next to each other everyday)
• You  not willing to work six days per week (we take Sundays off)
• You  not excited about using codegen tools like Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, etc.
• You  not comfortable deleting 80%-90% of the code that you write.
• You  not comfortable with ambiguity and rapid context-switching.
• You don  like candor- receiving and giving direct, honest feedback.
• You need a well defined structure or career ladder.

• Work alongside two experienced co-founders - one who built and sold a dev tools startup and one who led the engineering effort to create the same product we  creating at scale
• Get experience across the startup stack - you  be doing customer support, bug squashing, user interviews, events, and everything else along with writing code
• Be the first employee of the next dev tools category leader - we  not just building a dev tool, we  building an engineering platform that every company in Silicon Valley will be using and paying for

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