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Founding Engineer

About Opaxa

Opaxa is the AI agent platform that runs restaurant back-office operations. Not another dashboard — agents that take the work off the operator's plate and act: build the schedule and push it to action, place the order with distributors, audit the invoice for overcharges, draft the review reply. The operator approves what matters; the rest gets done. The founder owns and runs a 40-location restaurant company with over 750 employees — so Opaxa's first customer is a real, operating restaurant group with real data and real stakes from day one. Deep domain expertise is built in, and your work runs in real restaurants immediately, not after a six-month hunt for a design partner. Well-funded. A working prototype is already built. Now I’m hiring a founding full-stack engineer to take it from prototype to production: own the architecture, the agent runtime, the backend, and the integrations the agents act through (Toast, Paycom, Sysco, and more), set the technical bar, and grow the team behind you. You’re a fit if you: - have shipped agentic systems to production — plan-and-act, not chatbots or wrappers - are a strong full-stack builder (Python and/or Node, Postgres, real infra) - use the latest AI tooling (Claude Code / Cursor) as your default want to own a whole product as the first engineer, and eventually lead Stack: React/TypeScript, Python/Node, Postgres, the Anthropic API, integrations across the restaurant stack. To apply: email me at colton@opaxa.ai with the most impressive agentic system you’ve personally shipped — what it did, what you owned, and what made it hard — plus your resume or links. I read every one and reply. Please write it yourself; if it’s clearly AI-generated, I’ll pass.

Job Description

Founding engineer; second engineer in the team; own the architecture and collaborate with the founder, sales, and product teams; take new features from spec to production; work closely with managers who use the product; as new clients come on, you'll lead getting them live; you’ll ship changes within days; TypeScript/React, Python, Postgres, AWS, and AI tools used daily; early, high-intensity role with ownership and fast pace; US work authorization required; no agencies or contract firms.

Remote

Remote Conditions

US-based candidates; remote within the United States; San Francisco Bay Area preferred

Salary

175K

 to 

225K

Benefits

Not Specified

Tech Tags

Equity Offered

Senior Role

Date Listed

05 October, 2026 (about 7 hours ago)
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