Founding Engineer
About the role
Founding Engineer at Elyra, an AI reservation system for restaurants. Build end-to-end features with production impact, including guest-facing agents, an agent-operated platform, a unified knowledge brain, and a real-time booking engine.
Responsibilities
- Ship end-to-end solutions from idea to production and own the result.
- Build guest-facing AI agents (phone, email, online bookings) and ensure fast, personal responses.
- Develop an internal agent platform for restaurant onboarding, scheduling, and configuration via conversation.
- Contribute to a unified knowledge base used by agents and staff.
- Support a real-time availability engine for bookable slots across floor plans and party sizes.
Qualifications
- Fluent in TypeScript and comfortable across the stack (React, Hono, Postgres/Supabase in a strictly-typed monorepo).
- Experience with building on large language models (LLMs): agents, tool use, voice.
Skills
Benefits
- Founding-level equity and influence on product and technical direction.
- Production scale from day one; code directly impacts restaurant operations.
- Small, dedicated team, no bureaucracy, clean codebase.
About Elyra
AI Reservation System for Restaurants
Elyra is an AI reservation system for restaurants. Instead of missing 40% of incoming phone calls and taking days to reply to emails, leaving over $100,000 in bookings on the table every year, restaurants get AI agents that answer every call and email instantly, 24/7, connected to a reservation system that optimizes table placements in real time so empty seats get filled with the right guests. Felix and Alan met in primary school in Stockholm and have been building things together ever since. We launched with a single restaurant and within weeks they hit record occupancy, bookings they used to miss were suddenly being captured automatically, and empty Tuesday nights started filling up. Today we power top restaurants groups. There are over 1 million restaurants in the US and Europe alone. The average restaurant loses $100K+ a year to missed calls and slow email replies. At our current pricing, that's a $10B+ market opportunity, and we're the only system that handles the call, the email, and the table allocation in one place.