# Founding Engineer at Compresr

- Company: Compresr
- What the company does: Compresr is an LLM context-compression API: send long context plus your query, get back a shorter context that keeps the answer-bearing tokens and drops the rest. Cut token cost and latency; at light compression, match or beat full-context accuracy. Python... Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://compresr.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-27
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/compresr/00776540-4729-4351-b25d-4050c7e3155b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/compresr-founding-engineer/

## About the role

Type: Full-time permanent contract or an Internship with a potential follow-up offer A cracked full-stack engineer who enjoys a high-paced startup environment, takes pride in what they build and owns it end to end.

## What they're looking for

- Strong backend engineering fundamentals
- Experience with concurrency and distributed systems
- Experience deploying and scaling production backend services on AWS
- Ability to work across systems (Python + light frontend)
- Excellent Claude Code (or similar) user

Tags: Engineering