Founding Engineer
Forestwalk is hiring a Founding Engineer to help teams build better AI products, faster.
What’s Forestwalk?
We’re an early-stage venture building delightful products that help people do their best work. Right now that looks like an AI-powered todo app called Timberline. We’re two technical co-founders (Allen Pike and Jenn Cooper) that are rapidly building, testing, and proving out our path to building a venture-scale business.
Things are early! We have a prototype app on the web and Mac. As we build, we’ve been adding a couple new alpha testers a week try out the app and help us set priorities. But we’re serious about the mission, and have raised a pre-seed to make it happen.
Who are we hiring?
This hire will be 1/3 of our company, so we’re taking our time to find the right addition – in terms of potential to speed us up, but also values. Currently we think of our values like this:
- Stay curious – Building from 0 to 1 means experimentation. We’re energized by finding out how to do better.
- Build remarkable experiences – We create things that are worthy of our customers’ attention: useful, but also beautiful and fast.
- Care personally – Software is about people. Great teams give a shit about customers and one another.
- Move fast – Speed isn’t just about work completed. It means testing assumptions and changing our minds quickly, and keeping the right things simple.
We’re going to hire somebody that vibes with these values, but also pushes us to refine them.
Oh, and you also need to be able to ship code! The person we hire will probably have helped a tech startup scale beyond thousands of users, with comfort working both on frontend and backend, and can help us push way beyond that.
What’s the tech stack?
Building something totally new is hard enough. That’s why we lean towards well-understood, pragmatic tech.
So far that’s been TypeScript with React, Fastify, and Tailwind, plus of course various LLM providers like OpenAI and Anthropic. We distribute the app on the web and in Electron, and will be building an iOS app soon, likely native Swift. We know a lot about mobile and building on LLMs, so we can teach you that, but you should already be practiced at shipping products for the web in TypeScript.
At the end of the day, we’ll use whatever tech makes sense for the business and the customer.
What are the terms?
We’re looking for somebody who can join us full time, with 2-3 days a week in-person in Gastown, Vancouver. Given that we have some funding we can make this hire as a full-time employee, maybe starting in the $130-165k range – plus some equity depending on experience. That said, if you’d be up for starting with a 3-month trial contract, that could be a great way to test mutual fit.
How do I apply?
With your application, include three things:
- A link or PDF resume (LinkedIn is fine)
- Whether or not you’re up for working in person 2-3 days/week downtown Vancouver
- What made you curious about this role in particular?