Founding Engineer

At Amplio, we’re making manufacturing more competitive and sustainable. Our clients leverage Amplio’s AI-powered platform to resell their surplus and used equipment, providing it with a second life and preventing it from ending up in landfills. Founded by repeat founders, we are backed by leading VC firms and recently closed a Series A.

We are seeking a talented Full-Stack Engineer to join our founding engineering team. As an early-hire engineer, you will work closely with the founding team to build high-quality software and pioneer our AI-driven initiatives to empower the 700B circular economy.

Why is this position exciting?

This position will have the potential to:

• Make a direct material impact in the success of the company.
• Own your work, move fast, and break things in a fun, sharp, and collaborative environment.
• Experiment, learn, and build best practices on how to leverage genAI

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

1. Build software!
• Develop, maintain, and enhance customer-facing web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js in collaboration with designers.
• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and systems to support application features using SQL and best practices in data modeling.
• Contribute to infrastructure setup, monitoring, and maintenance (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, containerization, telemetry, and cloud deployments).
2. Data Pipelines & genAI Experimentation
• Design and develop scalable data pipelines, ensuring data is captured, processed, and stored efficiently for AI experiments.
• Implement data ingestion, validation, transformation, and feature extraction pipelines to support machine learning model development.
• Design agent networks to automate human tasks

Qualifications

• This job is for you:
• At least 5 years of professional experience in full-stack development.
• Proficiency with TypeScript, React, Next.js, and SQL for building scalable web applications, back to front.
• Advanced understanding of data engineering concepts and willingness to learn more
• Willingness to learn more about how to integrate genAI into your worklfow
• You’re self-motivated, comfortable with ambiguity, a great problem solver, and a excellent communicator
• You welcome feedback and you’re able to express it constructively
• You don’t take yourself too seriously and enjoy a light-hearted and emotionally mature work environment
• This job isn’t for you if:
• You haven’t owned anything from concept to creating value for users
• You’re not interested in the discovery process and you just want to grab tickets and code
• Job safety and work-life balance are the only criteria that drive your career decisions
• You don’t see much value in in-person collaboration

Benefits

• Early-hire equity
• Best Medical / Dental / Vision plans
• Parental benefits
• Flexible PTO
• Various stipends
• Clear work-life boundaries