Founding Engineer

Title: Founding Engineer (exact title varies)

Location: US (Remote); Eastern Time preferred; Atlanta area highly preferred

Compensation: Equity only pre-seed. Please contact us if you have questions about funding info.

Time Requirements: Part-time pre-seed, converting to full-time post-seed. Please do not apply if you dont wish to work full-time later.
Equity only — Pre-seed — Actively Funding — Founding Team — 5 slots from SWE to Head of Engineering

All qualified applicants will be reviewed by a human, not a machine.
The OUR+R Pipeline — How we want it done ourselves if we were the candidate.

• 5-business-day review window; contact by the close of the window.

• 1-week interview window (rolling pipeline) starting at the start of the next week (if we reach out on a Tuesday, you get till Friday the following week to interview.

• 2 Interview cycles. 30-60 minutes each.

• Update, Offer, or Rejection within 7 business days of each stage.

The OUR+R Pipeline Visually:
Apply → Review → Screening Call → Virtual On-site, follow-up questions → offer.

This is a founding-level opportunity with significant ownership, technical influence, and equity potential. You'll work directly with the founder and technical leadership to shape the product, architecture, and future engineering organization.
This is a pool for multiple roles. We have 3 related verticals that solve real problems we want to solve. We have multiple for each role type. Equity listed on posting is based on a Founding Engineer; Head of Engineering roles have an equity bump. The role level will be determined during the technical screen, and you will be informed of the direction we'll be moving after the tech screening, if moving forward.

❝ Safety and sustainability are the minimum. ❞

— Founders' Shared Vision

Who We're Looking For

We're not anchoring this role to a specific title history. What matters is that you can own technical delivery end-to-end, make sound architecture decisions with limited oversight, and operate as a founding engineer, not just an executor.

You might be a senior engineer who's built production systems at scale, a tech lead ready to step into a broader ownership role, or a founding engineer who's done this before and wants to do it again at a company worth building from scratch.

The title is Founding Lead because that's the scope. The path that gets you there is flexible.

We expect you to write production code and we expect you to use the tools available to do it well. AI-assisted development is welcome; ownership of the output is required.

Required Skills

• TypeScript and Node.js

• React and modern frontend development.

• PostgreSQL and relational data modeling

• REST API design and development

• Git-based workflows and collaborative development practices

• Docker and modern deployment practices

• Demonstrated experience building and scaling production web applications

• High-availability and reliability principles — you've thought about these, not just read about them.

• Production troubleshooting and performance optimization experience

• Demonstrated experience mentoring junior engineers or interns

• Experience participating in engineering hiring processes (panels, interviews, or hiring loops)

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• CI/CI

• 3 Years of SWE experience.

Preferred Skills

• React Native or Capacitor experience — strongly preferred

• Experience leading and managing engineering teams — strongly preferred

• Real-time location services, GPS tracking, mapping integrations, route optimization, or geospatially aware application development — a strong plus

• App Store and Google Play deployment experience

• Payment integrations — Stripe, Apple Pay, or Google Pay

• AWS, Azure, or DigitalOcean experience

• Startup or founding engineer experience

• 0 → 1 Build Experience

What You'll Do

• Own major portions of application development and technical delivery from day one

• Help evolve the MVP into a production-ready, scalable platform

• Drive improvements to scalability, reliability, and maintainability

• Participate actively in architecture decisions and technical planning

• Establish engineering standards and development practices

• Build, lead, and mentor the future engineering team, including junior developers and interns

Compensation Pre-seed compensation is expected to be equity-only, with salary opportunities increasing as funding milestones are achieved. If you're excited about building a company from the ground floor and helping shape both the platform and engineering culture, we'd love to talk.

About Us OUR+R Technologies is building marketplace infrastructure for the platform economy — a SaaS foundation designed to power driver-first, two-sided marketplaces across multiple verticals.

Get Rides Plus is our first vertical: a rideshare platform that puts safety, sustainability, and fair economics at the center of the model. We're pre-seed, moving with intention, and assembling the founding team that will take us from our first live vertical to a funded, multi-market platform.

Our collaboration hours are 2 PM - 7PM Eastern Time. This is when you will likely receive a reply from one of the founders.
If you have any questions, please reach out to me via LinkedIn.
— Matt, Co-Founder, CTO and COO