Founding Engineer
Forestwalk is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build delightful AI-powered products. 🌟
What's Forestwalk?
We're an early-stage product startup focused on helping teams move faster. Right now that looks like rapid prototyping, exploration, and implementing feedback from potential customers. We're two technical co-founders (Allen and Jenn) that are building, testing, and proving out our path to building something big.
Who are we hiring?
We’re hiring somebody that can speed us up – help us ship and learn faster – but also bring the right mix of energy, curiosity, and craziness it takes to join a startup this early. 🙃
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 looking for somebody who’s comfortable shipping to customers, working both on frontend and backend, and excited to push from MVP through to scale.
Wait so what are you building exactly?
Today, we’re working on realtime team chat and communication tools. But we’ve also experimented with tasks and workflow apps, LLM eval tooling, and various other team-oriented products for the Mac and the web. We’ll keep experimenting and updating our plans and testing them with customers until we find something that can scale big.
What's the tech stack?
Building something 0 to 1 is tricky. That's why we lean towards well-understood, pragmatic tech.
So far that's been TypeScript with React, Fastify, Tailwind, OpenAI, and Electron, but at the end of the day we’ll use whatever tech makes sense for our customers. We already know a lot about mobile and building on LLMs, so we’re especially keen to talk to folks who have strong full-stack web skills.
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. We’re open minded on the exact experience level and thus compensation that makes sense for the role, but maybe starting in the $170-200k range, plus maybe 1% of the company in options?
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?