Founding Software Engineer
Founding Software Engineer at Wavelength — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Wavelength
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 120000–160000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
What you’ll do
You’ll be responsible for shipping products from 0-1 and their maintenance once they’re in production. We’re a customer obsessed team and we also expect you to talk to our customers, iterate on what you push, and continuously improve. Most of all, you will be the sole architect, designer, and engineer on multiple systems across our stack
Technical Must-Have’s
High Level Proficiency in Go, Typescript, Python, Java, C/C++
Designing / Working on Distributed Systems
Brownie Points (not required, but encouraged)
Experience / Proficiency with Rust,
Frontend Experience (React, Next.Js, similar)
What a Good Fit looks like
Enjoy solving open-ended, challenging problems
Value good design and UX (an eye for it)
Thrive with owning end-to-end product development
Able to easily communicate complex ideas simply
Extremely Proactive (about everything)
What we Care about
Customer Obsession: Our goal is to make every customer love what we build, whatever it takes.
Beautiful Design: Software should be beautiful, it’s in the details
Accountability: Taking things end-to-end, owning up to when we make mistakes, and fully trusting each other along the way
HighBar: We demand a high bar for ourselves, we expect you to have one too. Once you achieve something, take it up a notch
Open-Minded: We love to debate the details. Disagree with us - We’re not always right. Every decision we make we should have full confidence in
Fun Facts:
Our team has experience from companies like Apple, Convoy, Netflix, and more
We’re backed by amazing investors like Village Global, Y Combinator, the founder of Guitar Hero (cool right?), and executives from Intuit, Anyscale
We have a Señor Sisig addiction (it’s a once a week must on the lunch rotation)