Founding Engineer

About Velvet

Velvet is an AI-first data platform. We help engineers warehouse and leverage their LLM logs to analyze, optimize, and fine-tune their AI features. We have funding from institutional VCs and are seeking contributors. We’re open to full-time employees, or  fractional contractors. Emma and Chris are the founders of Velvet. Emma is a second-time founder and has worked on product teams at Fitbit, theSkimm, and Chicago Ventures. Chris is a software engineer with experience at Pebble, MongoDB, and as the CTO at a variety of high-growth startups.

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Job description

As a fractional founding engineer, you’ll work closely with the founders to meet weekly goals. The ideal candidate is a full-stack engineer who is comfortable navigating a modern tech stack. Our system is built on Next.js (Vercel), Typescript, Node/Deno, Postgres (Supabase), and LLMs (like OpenAI). Preference for people based in NYC / EST, but we’re a remote-first team.

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Responsibilities

• Ship new features weekly
• Maintain and improve system architecture
• Collaborate on strategy and planning

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Qualifications

You’re a good fit for this role if you:

• Can work M-F between 9-7 ET (NYC)
• Have a consistent 10-40 hours availability per week
• Are comfortable with the Typescript / Next, and have shipped AI / ML features

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Our values

• Communicate clearly. We’re transparent, concise, and deliberate.
• Take ownership. We take responsibility and complete our work.
• Create value. We work for our customers and ship high-quality features.

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What we offer

• Remote, asynchronous, calm work environment.
• Autonomy over your work. We trust you to make the right decisions for the company.
• Fair compensation. Tell us what you need to do good work.

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How to Apply

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