What are the responsibilities and job description for the Founding Engineer position at Countless?
Company Overview:
We’ve used AI to build a breakthrough in financial data that enables companies to understand their business better than ever before. We've already seen interest from a range of industries including SaaS, manufacturing, fintech, and healthcare.
The unique and powerful dataset we're acquiring will serve as the foundation for us to build the best AI finance agent as underlying models improve.
Our ultimate goal is to build the AI that can help run a company. There's genuine potential to be worth $100B in 10 years if we execute. We have a years-long roadmap with a three-step master plan that we're happy to share with candidates.
Role Overview:
* You should be relatively full-stack and comfortable across both front-end & back-end (our stack below), and willing to get super familiar with data & AI if you're not already.
* You can build a scalable and mostly bug-free back-end. If you write tests, you do so very quickly.
* Even if leaning back-end, you can build a front-end quickly with a bit of practice. You know best practices, and when given a well-defined Figma, can quickly create reusable components.
* You know or can get acquainted with our stack quickly. Front-end: React, NextJS; Back-end: Node.js, Typescript; Infra: AWS, Postgres, DynamoDB.
Nice-to-haves:
* Your friends and colleagues can attest that you're one of the best engineers they know.
* You work hard & smart enough to regularly accomplish in a day what takes other engineers a week.
* You're ambitious, curious, and hungry to build something huge.
* You take serious pride in your work. It's a focal point of your life.
* You act with such urgency that lazier people you've worked with would find you annoying.
* You get bored quickly if you feel like a small cog in a big machine, or with too much work-life balance.
Our Values:
- Compress Time
Compressing time requires thinking backwards from the end goal, e.g. getting a customer, proving a hypothesis, or raising a next round, and asking ourselves: “What is the absolute fastest path to this goal?”. We act with urgency and seek ways to reach the goal 10x faster. We reason from first principles to identify shortcuts. There’s often creative paths to our goals. If creative paths don’t exist, we work as hard as we have to in order to compress time.
- Win Every Week
If we approach every day and every week of our life with the question, “What did I accomplish this week?”, it compounds incredibly. By effectively compressing time, there is hardly anything that cannot be done in a week, so we expect substantial goals to be hit every week and hold ourselves to that standard. Our accomplishments will add up surprisingly quickly.
- Own End-to-End
Every critical mission in our business must be owned by one person who is solely responsible for it. We will have the support of our team, but we must take initiative, and we should be extremely annoying when needed to get what we require from others to accomplish our mission. Always stay unblocked, and do not accept delays or excuses. Run through walls.
We build in-person in our office. No remote or hybrid. Building a startup requires a high degree of coordination. Coordination costs increase non-linearly with each additional team member. Waiting until a scheduled remote chat with a person tomorrow to share something creates delays that compound in a huge way. In-person also allows us to build community, and trust, which improves the quality of our work.
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