Founding Engineer

The role

The founding engineer will build APIs and distributed infrastructure to provide inboxes and identity for AI agents. You will design high-performant systems and own projects from design to production rollout.

What you will do

• Design APIs and abstractions for humans and AI Agents
• Build high-performant, low-latency systems
• Work on core infrastructure processing hundreds of thousands of emails per day
• Bridge cutting edge AI capabilities with email
• Own projects end-to-end from system design to production rollout
• Write clear, maintainable code and strong technical documentation
• Act as the frontline for customer feedback

Required qualifications

• Solve problems end-to-end across frontend, infrastructure, backend, and UX
• Maintain a high bar for quality and attention to detail
• Communicate tradeoffs, problems, and blockers directly in daily standups and weekly syncs

Nice to have

• Prior experience shipping production software by real users as a software engineer at a tech company or startup
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or developer tools
• Experience with messaging, email, auth, or protocol-heavy systems
• Experience building for AI/LLM use cases

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Equinox memberships
• Breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Free Doordash)

About the company

AgentMail is building an API designed to give inboxes to AI agents and be the sole identity and communication provider. The team includes experts from Optiver, NVIDIA, Amazon, Modern Treasury, and KKR.