Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead Job at Fulcrum, San Francisco, CA

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  • Fulcrum
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Join Fulcrum's exceptional founding team to revolutionize the $1T+ insurance industry. We're starting by transforming insurance brokerages with cutting-edge AI Agents, serving several of the largest brokerages in the world.

Why Fulcrum

  • Real traction at break-neck speed: 6-7 figure enterprise contracts with some of the largest companies in the world, actual live customers raving about the product, in less than a year
  • Top of market compensation: on both cash and equity
  • Exceptional team: with background from firms like Glean, Scale AI, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Stanford, Columbia, IIT, Tower Research, McKinsey
  • Tremendous growth opportunity with lightning-fast executors and great mentors:
  • Limitless potential for growth and ownership within the company
  • Opportunity to work alongside some of the most relentless executors in a high functioning environment
  • Gain mentorship from seasoned founders, leaders and investors in top companies e.g., Glean, Facebook, Uber, Automation Anywhere, Replit, Netflix, Databricks, Jasper, amongst others

Challenges

Our initial focus involves developing an AI-driven platform capable of performing a diverse range of back-office tasks with unparalleled speed, accuracy, and reliability. This endeavor presents a multitude of unique challenges, including:

  1. Pushing beyond the boundaries of current AI research to address complexities surpassing existing benchmarks
  2. Building scalable systems that can effortlessly handle millions of workflow iterations
  3. Solving intricate engineering, architectural, and business challenges
  4. Lead projects with a team of top-tier engineering talent

The Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead Role

As a Founding Staff Engineer / Tech Lead at Fulcrum, you will own and lead engineering projects across our various product lines. You will work closely with the founders, enterprise customers, and a world-class technical team to revolutionize the way enterprises operate.

We are looking for individuals who have worked across the stack on incredible products across consumer, enterprise, and various industries and who are excited about building the future of the modern enterprise and GenAI products.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use an in-person work model and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

Responsibilities

  • Operate as technical lead to build functionality with world-class engineers: work with our growing team of top-tier technical talent to create technical breakthroughs, manage core releases, mentor junior team members.
  • Integrate traditional SaaS with AI Applications: develop end-to-end features touching all parts of the stack to enable AI workflow and tasks.
  • Zero-to-one product development: rapidly prototype, evaluate, and integrate new product features and custom projects for our customers.
  • Customer obsession: Establish credibility with customers, walk them through the functionality, address their concerns.
  • Ship clean, well-documented and secure code: implement security concepts to develop software dealing with sensitive data, work with the security teams choosing what to build vs buy.
  • Realize technical breakthroughs to enable novel AI-first workflows: Envision, develop, and deploy scalable software applications utilizing AI and machine learning techniques.

About You

  • Strong technical experience: 6-8+ years of professional experience in software development, with a focus on cloud / enterprise software. AI, machine learning, or related areas are a plus.
  • Exceptional communication skills: You have extremely strong written and verbal communication skills to articulate technical vision as well as build relationships with customers.
  • Exceptional and detail-oriented problem solver: You have an established strength in problem solving, with a structured and analytical thinking approach.
  • Product mindset: You have a strong product mindset, can put yourselves in the shoes of a user and critically think through UX to ensure releases are well rounded.
  • Bias for action: You strike the right balance in thinking through and executing fast, rather than getting stuck in analysis-paralysis.
  • Startup experience — Previous experience working in an early-stage startup or dynamic environment is a big plus.

If you are a motivated tech lead with a passion for AI and a desire to drive innovation in the enterprise industry, we want to hear from you! Apply now to be part of an extraordinary team!

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