Founding Full-Stack Engineer (Bay Area · 3 days in-office)
About Distro
We’re building “Canva for Content”, an end-to-end AI-native platform that is delightful to use & supports each step in a user’s content journey. Distro will become the last piece of content software any professional needs to crush their job.
The job in a sentence
Shaping the technological foundation for a company that can be huge & consequential in society. Specifically, this looks like building our product V1 and shaping the Distro’s tech stack and culture
What does your first 12 months look like?
- Ship Distro v1 – own architecture and code for frontend (Next.js), backend (Python), and our multi-model AI stack.
- Stand up infra – choose GCP, Vercel, or whatever you can justify; automate evals and cost-tracking as we scale.
- Drive feature velocity – we ship a major feature every two weeks today; you’ll preserve that pace while upping quality.
- Hire & lead – recruit the first few engineers, manage vendors, and shape the product roadmap with Dev & Alex.
- Establish engineering culture – bias to “good-enough & shipped” over perfection, with taste-driven UX as a non-negotiable.
What success looks like
- Taste + speed – v1 delights users visually and hits weekly ship cadence.
- Team – a small, hungry eng squad you lead, humming on lightweight process.
You might be a fit if you…
- Have taken a green-field product to launch and iterated in production.
- Are comfortable in React/Next.js and Python (bonus: LLM/agentic pipelines).
- Sweat front-end polish; you know great UX from merely functional.
- Enjoy using the latest AI tools to ship 10x faster.