Founding Engineer

Enterprise Software Engineer, Founding Team

Company: Brade (Early-stage startup)

Location: Remote (US/EU overlap preferred)

Seniority: Mid–Senior (flexible)

Reports to: CTO

Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful early equity

Brade is a technology SaaS company leveraging AI agents for industrial distribution. Our v1 is live, and we’re now scaling into larger enterprise deployments.

This role is about turning a working product into enterprise-grade infrastructure that operators trust daily. It’s a product + systems role (not research).

• Own and ship critical enterprise workflows end-to-end (ingestion → reasoning → action → audit)
• Turn messy operational inputs (emails, PDFs, order data, ERP exports) into reliable, structured outputs
• Improve reliability, observability, and failure handling across production systems
• Integrate with enterprise systems (ERP, email, auth, internal APIs)
• Collaborate directly with founders and pilot customers to refine requirements
• Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, correctness, and safety
• Deliver production code that supports real operational teams quickly

Required

• Experience shipping production systems end-to-end
• Experience integrating with external systems (APIs, auth, file pipelines, messaging)
• Strong engineering judgment and ability to operate in ambiguity
• Experience working with AI-powered systems (LLMs, workflow engines, copilots)

Preferred

• Familiarity with enterprise authentication (SSO, RBAC)
• Experience with ERP or operational systems
• Early-stage startup experience

• Small team, high ownership
• Direct collaboration with founders
• Fast iteration with real customer feedback
• Strong bias toward reliability and measurable value
• We move quickly — but we build systems customers can trust

• Shape how AI copilots are deployed into industrial environments
• Influence core architectural decisions early
• Meaningful ownership in a company already shipping a real product

Please send:

• A short note on why this stage excites you
• Links to systems or products you’ve built (GitHub, portfolio, write-ups, etc.)

We care most about what you’ve shipped and owned.