Founding Staff Engineer

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🇮🇳 India – Remote

💵 ₹6.5M - ₹10M / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Conatus is a Dubai-based consumer app studio (Conatus Software Design FZCO) founded in 2026 that builds delightful consumer products and mobile apps with a focus on taste, care, and community. The small, founder-led team has prior exits and emphasizes ownership, close collaboration, and distribution as a competitive advantage. Their first product, Sonder, is an interactive fiction/bookshop experience that adapts to readers; they use AI to accelerate development but stress human-driven design decisions. Conatus offers in-app purchases/subscriptions via app stores and operates under Dubai/UAE law.

📋 Description

• Work directly with the founders and founding product designer to build, launch and rapidly improve the consumer storytelling product • Ship the whole product from database to reader-facing interface • Use coding agents for implementation while focusing on product decisions, experiments and appropriate AI trust boundaries • Own the production loop, including data model, streaming, background work, concurrency, payments, credit ledger, deployment and observability • Ensure every turn is reconstructable after the fact • Develop benchmarks and evaluations for continuity, character behaviour, narrative quality and failure modes • Design memory and context systems for stories spanning hundreds of turns • Decide model responsibilities, retrieval, orchestration, cost and latency • Test simple approaches on internal test cases before building bespoke systems • Establish maintainable engineering standards for future hires and agent-assisted development • Collaborate with founders, advisers and product design to test approaches and improve the product from real reader behaviour

🎯 Requirements

• Real production engineering depth • Ability to build with models, context, memory and evals as a natural part of how you work • Several years as a full stack product engineer (preferred) • Experience as one of the first engineers at an early-stage company (preferred) • Strong technical education such as IIT, NIT, IIIT or BITS (preferred) • Experience shipping consumer products end to end • Experience building and operating a production system with language models at its core • Experience diagnosing and fixing failures with real users • Ability to design experiments before building custom infrastructure • Ability to build meaningful evaluations • Strong databases, APIs, concurrency, background work and production reliability skills • Design instinct and confidence making decisions without a predefined specification • Genuine interest in product retention and user experience • Ability to explain complex technical decisions in plain English • Comfort challenging founders and advisers • Willingness to take broad ownership and grow toward Head of Engineering • Familiarity with TypeScript, Next.js and Postgres (expected stack) • Experience with frontier models over APIs and background jobs (expected stack)

🏖️ Benefits

• Founding level equity, sized for a technical leader rather than an ordinary early hire • Fully remote • Tooling, compute and model budget to run real experiments • Direct access to founders, a founding product designer, a former CTO and senior technical advisers • Defined path as the business grows, with a potential path to Head of Engineering

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