Sr. Founding Product Engineer

About the role

We are hiring one person to own the product's engineering end-to-end. You will be the technical owner of the AI Coach and the systems around it, reporting directly to a non-technical founder. You plan your own work, set your own technical direction within the product brief, and ship. There is no CTO above you and no agency to lean on - you are the engineering function, working at speed with AI-first tooling and agentic coding workflows.

What you'll do

• Be the technical owner of the AI Coach and the systems around it, reporting directly to a non-technical founder
• Own the backend: Python 3.12, FastAPI, GraphQL (Strawberry), SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, AWS (Sydney)
• Own mobile and web delivery: React Native (iOS + Android) and React, including App Store / Google Play / Stripe subscriptions
• Own release engineering: CI/CD, environments, signing credentials, monitoring, backups, rollback - built for fast, safe, frequent releases
• Translate technical decisions into plain language for the founder and clinical team

What you need

• Python
• SQL
• PostgreSQL
• AWS
• FastAPI
• React Native
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Git
• Google Analytics
• CRM
• React
• iOS
• CI/CD