Founding Engineer, Full Stack
Hybrid (San Francisco, CA)$120k - $250kFull-timePosted 8mo ago
About the role
Cloudglue is a YC-backed startup building developer APIs that turn video and audio into structured, searchable data. The founding full-stack engineer will own features across Cloudglue’s APIs, developer dashboard, SDKs, and documentation, shaping product and engineering culture in a high-ownership role.
Responsibilities
- Own features end-to-end - from API design to UI to production deployment
- Work directly with founders on core product decisions
- Build the tools and interfaces developers use to work with large video collections
- Ship quickly and iterate based on real customer feedback
- Build across the stack: Design and ship features spanning frontend (React/TypeScript), backend services (Node.js/Python/Go), and databases (Postgres).
- Developer tools: Build and maintain REST APIs, SDKs (Python/JS), the developer dashboard, and interactive playgrounds.
- Product integration: Wire up ML pipeline outputs (transcription, visual analysis, search results) into usable product surfaces and API responses
- Ownership: Take features from idea through implementation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Collaborate: Work directly with founders, infrastructure engineers, and customers. Short feedback loops, no layers of process.
Qualifications
- 3+ years building and shipping production web applications
- Strong fundamentals in both frontend and backend development
- Experience with API design and building developer-facing products
- Clear communication and a bias toward shipping
Skills
Required:Frontend developmentBackend developmentAPI designDeveloper tools
Last updated Aug 26, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Cloudglue
Developer APIs to let your AI/LLM understand videos and audio.
Cloudglue APIs (https://cloudglue.dev) makes it easy to transform video and audio into structured data for your LLM/RAG/AI application. Our developer-friendly APIs makes it easy to integrate video chat into your AI assistant with minimal heavy-lifting.
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