Founding Engineer

We’re hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer to join our team! This role is full-time in San Francisco in the Presidio.

​Gauge helps companies show up in more AI answers. Search traffic is shifting away from Google into AI chat, and companies are figuring out how to adapt right now.

Our system delivers real-time analytics derived from millions of LLM answers, while also providing an intuitive, powerful UX. We also generate optimized articles to improve our customers’ visibility, and offer an agentic chat interface over their data (think ‘Why was there a spike on 12/10?’ or ‘Which of my pages should I refresh?’).

We have Slack channels with our customers, so you’ll immediately see feedback when you ship.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you would work on every component in our system to improve the product for customers. You will be expected to turn high-level guidance into high quality, end-to-end features, while making smart investments into the scalability of our platform.

You could be working on a high-volume data pipeline, embedded BI tools, AI agents, or anything else that helps our customers win in AI search.

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for strong programming fundamentals, creative problem solving, and a high-agency working style. You might be a good fit if you are an ex-founder, ex-founding engineer, or have worked at a Seed/Series A startup.

Strong candidates have:

• built products from 0 → 1
• 3+ YoE in web development
• broad experience across the stack (frontend, backend, databases, queues)

Initial Screen (30m) → Tech Exercise (1hr) → Onsite (6hrs)