Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer at Wildcard — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Wildcard
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 125000–225000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
About
Wildcard helps ecommerce brands win in AI shopping. We show brands where their products appear across AI surfaces, where competitors are winning, what changes will improve visibility and business outcomes, and we build agents and workflows to help automate that execution.
Who you'll work with
You’ll work directly with me, Kaushik Mahorker, founder of Wildcard.
Previously at Scale AI, I built the ecommerce enrichment engine behind the company’s largest pilot across 400K SKUs, 2.8M attributes, and hundreds of taxonomies, helping secure $15M+ in contracts with major retailers and marketplaces.
That experience made something clear: shopping discovery is being rebuilt for an AI-first world, and most brands are not prepared for the shift.
Founding Engineer
We’re looking for a Founding Engineer to help shape both the product and the company from an early stage.
This is a high-ownership role. You’ll help decide what gets built, how it gets built, what gets prioritized, and how we move as the market evolves.
Week 0 Projects
Build incrementality and attribution systems tied to revenue outcomes for ecommerce brands
Scale browser orchestration and retrieval infrastructure across AI commerce surfaces
Make core workflows reliable with better queues, retries, and observability
Adapt the product to emerging agentic commerce protocols and launches
Build agents, MCP servers, and new product surfaces across emerging verticals
Looking for someone who
Has prior founding experience, or was early at a Seed, Series A, or Series B startup
Has strong full-stack experience and can ship across the stack
Is fast, outcome-focused, and knows how to do more with less
Has strong judgment on when to use AI and when not to
Brings new ideas constantly and can prioritize at a very granular level
Is resilient through changing priorities and mini-pivots
Gets excited by ownership and wearing multiple hats
Is willing to work in tight feedback loops with customers
Has high agency and high schlep tolerance
Preferred experience
TypeScript, Node.js, Express, React, and Next.js
Postgres, Redis, queues, and async job systems
Browser automation, scraping, or retrieval infrastructure
Building reliable production systems with retries, observability, and workflow orchestration
Building AI agents, including context management, orchestration, and evals
MCP servers, internal developer tools, or workflow products
Ecommerce, retail infrastructure, search, attribution, or analytics systems
Building codebases and products that work well with agents
If you want to help shape the product, architecture, and direction of the company from day 1, we’d love to hear from you.