About the job Founding Engineer – Full Stack — Jampack AI
Founding Engineer – Full Stack — Jampack AI
Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid, strong in-person preference)
Compensation: $160,000 – $220,000 base + 0.1% – 0.5% equity
Visa Sponsorship: None available
Experience Level: 2–5 years
Employment Type: Full-Time
About Jampack AI
Jampack AI is building an AI-native operating platform for wholesale CPG operations, automating the full order-to-cash lifecycle from purchase order ingestion through freight coordination, invoicing, and payment reconciliation.
Market traction:
- Processing $500M+ annualized wholesale volume
- Live production platform with real customers including Fishwife, Immi, Ghia, Path Water, and Sanzo
- $3.2M seed funding led by Maveron (co-founded by Howard Schultz) with Timber Grove Ventures participation
- Co-founder scaled a CPG company from $0 to $40M in 18 months; CTO has prior engineering leadership at scale
About the Role
This is a true founding engineering ownership role. This is not feature factory full-stack work. This is not low-stakes product engineering. This is mission-critical infrastructure ownership where downtime directly impacts shipments and customer revenue.
The stated moat is not the model — it is the infrastructure scaffolding around real-world AI workflows. Core ownership includes:
- Customer-facing product ownership from concept to production
- Direct customer conversations and solution design
- Event-driven AI workflow infrastructure and internal/external APIs
- ERP, 3PL, retailer, and freight partner integrations
- Real-time operator console development
- Sync-layer reliability engineering, observability, SLO design, and on-call ownership
- Backend, frontend, data, and AI workflow engineering
Requirements
- 2–5 years of software engineering experience, ideally with high-agency startup ownership
- TypeScript and Node.js expertise
- Strong Postgres capability — data modeling and query optimization
- Full-stack engineering ability including React
- Event-driven architecture experience — webhooks, async workflows, external systems integrations
- End-to-end product ownership — ability to take vague ideas to production
- Simplicity-first engineering mindset with reliability ownership
- Clear, direct communication including customer-facing technical communication
- Brooklyn hybrid availability with strong in-person presence
Nice to Have
- Founding engineer or early startup engineering experience
- Logistics, supply chain, freight systems, or CPG software exposure
- B2B SaaS infrastructure experience
- EDI systems experience (SPS Commerce, TrueCommerce)
- Flexport background
- Supabase, Next.js, AI agents, LLM tooling, or agentic production systems
Target Backgrounds
Strong signals include big tech → startup ownership arcs, Flexport or logistics-adjacent backgrounds, mission-critical backend ownership, reliability and observability depth, and real product ownership in startup environments.
This Role Is NOT For
- Big tech-only profiles with no startup ownership
- Job hoppers with weak shipped outcomes
- Low-agency or structured execution-only engineers
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Equity compensation (0.1% – 0.5%)
Interview Process
- Pending approval
- Initial screen
- First round
- Second round
- Offer
Logistics
- Role is hybrid in Brooklyn, NY with strong in-person preference — please only apply if you can commit to this
- No visa sponsorship available
Shortlisted candidates will be contacted by David Joseph & Co., the recruiting partner managing this search on behalf of Jampack AI.