Job Title: Founding Engineer
Location: Hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area and Portland; also remote-friendly
About Anagram
- Anagram is a platform for building interactive apps for websites.
- We enable marketers to create experiences like product recommenders, lead qualifiers, and adaptive surveys, powered by AI so that they’re personalized to each individual user.
- With Anagram, somebody with no technical ability can take a custom, personalized experience from idea to launch in minutes.
- We recently raised a seed round, and we’re a small team that ships fast.
- You’ll work directly with the CTO and other founders across our entire stack, from AI agent framework, to data integrations, to end user experience.
- We value raw talent and drive over resume.
- No matter what stage of career you’re in, if you’ve built impressive projects, shipped real products, or just learn scary fast, we want to talk to you.
Your focus
- Build a cutting-edge agent platform that makes it easy for anyone to build with AI
- Architect scalable infrastructure to serve millions of personalized experiences across thousands of customer websites in real-time
- Develop a platform for intelligent insights and self-improving systems that help users understand engagement and automatically improve experiences
Ideal candidate
Must-haves:
- 2+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience building user-facing web applications
- Empathy for non-technical users and commitment to great UX
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience building AI applications with LLMs
- Experience with AI-native development workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, etc.)
- Familiarity with JavaScript / TypeScript, React, Next.js, and databases
- Backend expertise with a focus on developing data-intensive applications at scale
Values we look for
- High agency → You make things happen
- Love of the game → You build because you want to
- Agile and nimble → You adapt fast
- Truth-seeking → You chase clarity, not ego
- Confident but humble → You’re strong, but coachable
- Sense of humor → You take the work seriously, but not yourself