Founding Engineer
Forestwalk is hiring a Founding Engineer to help us build delightful AI-powered products. 🌟
What's Forestwalk?
We're an early-stage startup using AI to make meetings more human. We're two repeat technical founders (Allen and Jenn) that have built Cedarloop, a meeting agent that teams are using every day to make their workflows suck less.
We need help building Cedarloop from something early users are excited about into 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 is Cedarloop exactly?
Right now, it’s a realtime agent that makes meetings shorter and more effective. The web app and in-meeting agent help teams prep, get on the same page, then follow through with stuff. But instead of one of those boring static agents that just sits there like a dummy, Cedarloop can screen share useful information to nudge people on track – and soon enough, will be able to speak up. (Only when it's merited. Voice agents that make unwanted interruptions are annoying as hell.)
Fundamentally Cedarloop is a realtime PM agent you invite into meetings, so it can do the mechanical stuff that helps folks pull in the same direction.
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, Anthropic, and Supabase, but at the end of the day we’ll use whatever tech makes sense for our customers. We already know a lot about building on LLMs, so we’re especially keen to talk to folks who have strong full-stack web skills.
Our codebase is set up to be easy for coding agents to work in, with automated tests, linters, review agents, and other tools that help us get improvements in front of customers fast, without committing slop. Given that, we're looking to hire people who have had at least some experience working with coding agents effectively.
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. We're VC-backed, so 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 likely in the $200k range, plus ~2-3% of equity.
That said, jumping in to an early-stage startup is risky! If you’d prefer to start with a 3-month trial contract, that could be a good 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?