# Founding Engineer (Generalist) at Firebender

- Company: Firebender (YC W24)
- What the company does: Most powerful coding agent for Android engineers. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://firebender.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2025-07-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/firebender/jobs/yisDXr5-founding-engineer-generalist
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/firebender-founding-engineer-generalist/

## About the role

Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model. Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500. Building a great coding agent is likely the most valuable technical challenges to solve right now, and we’re already making great progress on this.

## What they're looking for

- Can articulate an impressive engineering feat that you’ve accomplished that shows you can build quickly
- 0-3 years of software experience/B.S computer science is nice to have, but not hard requirement
- Kotlin or Android engineering experience is a plus, but not a requirement

Tags: Engineering