# Founding Engineer at Nessie

- Company: Nessie (YC F25)
- What the company does: The shared context layer for recursive companies - your work, your…. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://nessielabs.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $100K to $150K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-08
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/nessie/jobs/3HYCa6v-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/nessie-founding-engineer/

## About the role

We’re looking for one engineer who can build. You’ll build the shared context layer for recursive companies: a data lake that ingests everything a team produces with AI, an ontology that turns it into trustworthy, typed knowledge, and the loop that lets people and agents improve from it. You’ll own real surface area from day one. We’re three people with years of runway, so you’ll have enormous autonomy and you’ll ship constantly.

## What they're looking for

- The instinct to ship before it’s perfect
- The ability to work with extreme autonomy. We are three people. There is no manager and no spec, there is a problem and you figure out how to solve it
- Opinions about the products you use. If you have never looked at an app and thought “this is wrong and here is how I would fix it,” we are probably not a match
- Comfort with ambiguity. The product is evolving fast, and what you work on in week 1 may differ from week 4. That should excite you

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