Founding Engineer – Baton AI

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San Francisco, CA
Mid level
Angel or VC Firm
The Role
As a Founding Engineer at Baton AI, you will develop a full-stack web application, integrate AI-powered automation, lead technical decisions, and contribute to product direction while mentoring future team members.
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Founding Engineer – Baton AI

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-Person)

Experience Level: 3+ years (Full-Stack Engineering)

About Baton AI

Baton AI (getbaton.ai) is revolutionizing how solutions engineers and implementation consultants work. Our AI co-pilot eliminates the tedious, manual work of customizing SaaS demos and configuring implementation workflows—so users can focus on what they do best: delivering exceptional customer experiences. And this is just the beginning. We’re building toward enterprise-wide workflow automation, seamlessly connecting software ecosystems into a powerful, AI-driven platform.

As a Founding Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of our innovation—shaping the product, making key technical decisions, and working alongside the founding team to push the boundaries of AI-driven automation. We move fast, collaborate deeply, and are obsessed with building tools that create real impact.

Backed by Pear VC, we’re looking for ambitious builders who take ownership, move with urgency, and want to redefine the future of SaaS with AI.

Ready to build the future? Let’s chat.

What You’ll Do

  • Build and Scale: Own and develop key parts of our full-stack web application, API infrastructure, and AI-driven automation workflows.

  • AI & Workflow Automation: Work on complex technical challenges, including integrating LLMs, abstracting API traffic, and designing intelligent automation for SaaS applications.

  • Product Ownership: Influence product direction, help define our technical roadmap, and drive the implementation of key features.

  • Customer-Centric Development: Work closely with early customers to refine our solution and ensure it delivers real business impact.

  • Technical Leadership: Lay down the engineering foundation, set best practices, and mentor future team members.

  • Fast Iteration & Experimentation: Operate in a high-velocity startup environment, rapidly prototyping and iterating on product features.

What We’re Looking For

  • 3+ years of full-stack engineering experience and love writing Typescript.

  • Proficiency in modern web application development – React/NextJS and Node.js. Understanding of Python and Elixir/functional programming is a plus.

  • Has experience building Rich Text editors like Notion and/or would love to build one.

  • Experience building AI/ML apps with LLMs, AI agents and workflow automation.

  • Writes beautiful software and appreciates a good UI design.

  • Strong problem-solving mindset – ability to break down complex problems and ship high-quality solutions quickly.

  • Entrepreneurial mindset – thrives in ambiguity, takes ownership, and enjoys working in a fast-paced startup environment.

  • Lives in SF/Bay area.

Why Join Us?

  • Founding team role – you’ll be a core part of the early team and help define our culture, product, and engineering principles.

  • Direct impact & ownership – work on high-impact problems and ship features that customers love.

  • Competitive compensation & early-stage equity – be rewarded for the value you create as we scale.

  • Work with cutting-edge AI & automation – build a novel, AI-powered workflow automation platform that solves real customer pain points.

In-person collaboration – we believe the best early-stage teams thrive in an in-person environment, working together to solve hard problems efficiently.

Top Skills

Elixir
Nextjs
Node.js
Python
React
Typescript
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The Company
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
154 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2013

What We Do

We’re specialists in pre-seed and seed. The startups we back go far. Best-in-class founders do not come around every day. When they do, we jump at the opportunity to work together. Our approach is to work with just a small number of best-in-class founders so we can dig in and go deep.

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