Founding Engineer
About the role
Founding Engineer role at Sourcebot in San Francisco, joining as the second engineering hire on the founding team to ship major features end-to-end and shape the product’s future.
Responsibilities
- Building core code indexing pipelines that scale across thousands of repositories
- Building agents that can retrieve and summarize context from millions of lines of code
- Meeting with enterprise teams to learn about and solve their problems
- Building a world class developer tool experience used by thousands of engineers
- Own the design and development of new functionality from user discovery to implementation, shipping, and collecting feedback
Qualifications
- Experience level: Any (new grads ok)
- Strong foundational software knowledge and problem-solving ability
- Experience or comfort with shipping software and products they’re proud of
- Not tied to a specific tech stack; team comes from video game industry and has C++ background; ability to learn and adapt quickly
Skills
About Sourcebot
Helping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases
Sourcebot is an open source code understanding platform for massive codebases. We’re used by thousands of engineers in some of the largest companies in the world, including NVIDIA, Red Hat, Wikimedia, and Arista Networks. Understanding code, not writing it, is the primary bottleneck for large engineering teams. For developers, this means onboarding onto complex codebases faster. For AI agents, it means getting the necessary code context to minimize hallucinations and maximize cohesion within the wider codebase. Sourcebot solves this by giving developers and AI agents the ability to regex search across millions of lines of code instantly, as well as ask questions across thousands of repos using any flagship reasoning model. Being open source and on-prem, we can get deployed in enterprises within minutes before other tools even get approval. We met a decade ago at McGill University and have been building together full time for over 2 years. We’ve personally felt the pain of understanding large codebases while working at Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Google, and Meta.
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