Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer at Cofia — New York, NY, US
- Company: Cofia
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 180000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
As our founding engineer, you'll own significant parts of the product alongside the founders. You'll work across the stack — event capture, the workflow inference and generation pipeline, integrations, and user-facing surfaces. You'll work directly with users and help shape the technical direction of the company.
What you'll work on
macOS and Windows desktop clients
Backend services and data pipelines for high-volume event data
LLM pipelines that turn raw signals into workflows, and the evals behind them
Integrations across the apps our users already work in
Infrastructure and reliability
Direct work with our earliest customers
Requirements
1+ years of experience building production software
Full stack experience across multiple frameworks
Experience with distributed systems, data pipelines, or streaming events
Product obsessed and high ownership mentality
Nice to haves
Experience with LLM agents, distributed inference, or evaluation pipelines
Background in developer tools, automation platforms, or integration-heavy products
Client-side or on-device engineering experience
Early-stage startup experience
What we offer
Significant equity
Competitive compensation
Health, dental, and vision coverage
NYC office, in-person
Our Founding Team
Moses Wayne. Former Engineering Director at Duolingo, where he led Monetization to over $1B in annual revenue. CS and Economics at Duke.
Paola Martínez. Former Product Lead for Retention at Brilliant.org, where she 3x'd mobile DAU. Stanford CS undergrad and MS&E Master's. Mayfield Fellow and former Schmidt Futures Impact Fellow.