# Founding Engineer at Sourcebot

- Company: Sourcebot (YC F25)
- What the company does: Helping humans and AI agents understand massive codebases. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.sourcebot.dev/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $200K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-10
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/sourcebot/jobs/WVbwFeV-founding-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/sourcebot-founding-engineer/

## About the role

You’ll be joining us as our second engineering hire and will be a member of the founding team. You’ll work on shipping major features from start to finish and will play a critical role in the future of Sourcebot. You’ll own the design and development of new functionality through the entire process of speaking with users, architecting an implementation, shipping it, and getting feedback from engineering teams. Areas that you’ll be working on include:

## What they're looking for

- Building core code indexing pipelines that scale across thousands of repositories
- Building agents that can retrieve and summarize context from millions of lines of code
- Meeting with enterprise teams at the cutting edge to learn about and solve their problems
- Building a world class developer tool experience used by thousands of engineers

Tags: Engineering