Overview

We are FounderNest, using AI to disrupt an entire industry. Founded at Stanford by Stanford alums and Wharton/Google alums, FounderNest is an AI-native company that helps corporations around the world improve and streamline their market intelligence processes, including but not limited to:

1. Helping them understand the taxonomy and dynamics of the spaces they are interested in.
2. Mapping out all the players operating in those spaces.
3. Getting unique insights in these areas (e.g. growth rate).
4. Tracking what their competitors are doing in them.

Our core technology is built on real-time analytics and Generative AI running on private and public company data. We fuel our Natural Language Processing technology with +50M companies and +1.2B aggregated data points, allowing us to be 3x-5x better than alternatives.

We are proud to count amongst our customers some of the largest corporations worldwide.

This is the perfect time to join us!

What you will do

• You'll provide technical insights during problem definition and solution ideation, to help the team come up with a Lean version of the solution.
• You'll make data-informed decisions using insights about the business, the users and our systems.
• You'll use the qualitative and quantitative data that your Lean solution produced to keep iterating it, making it more reliable, with higher performance or more scalable.
• You'll work within a cross-functional team alongside product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.
• You’ll lead the Full Stack Development within a cross-functional team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions that positively impact the customer experience.

Our tech stack

• In our Engineering team we use Typescript, Python, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Remix, Prisma, Testing Library, Docker, RabbitMQ, Langchain.
• For data, we use Airbyte, Dagster and DBT and we have our Data Warehouse in Google Big Query.
• We have our CI/CD pipelines in GitHub.
• We deploy in Kubernetes on AWS multiple times per day.
• We use New Relic as an all-in-one observability platform.
• It would be great if you’ve worked with these tools before, but you don’t need to be an expert in all of them to be a strong candidate. We’re looking for product-minded engineers who want to make an impact, and we’ll support you in adapting to our tech stack if needed.

What you will bring

• You have 3+ years of experience in Software Engineering, ideally at a product-driven fast-paced tech startup.
• Experience working in eXtreme Programming teams. You have seen the benefits of practices such as TDD, small and frequent releases or pair programming.
• You have a great product sense and you use it along with your technical expertise to add value to our users.
• You have experience doing product discovery, not just delivering features.
• You have a genuine passion about technology and the AI revolution, constantly exploring new tools that can elevate the product and streamline day-to-day workflows.
• You see the software you create as a way of generating value for our users, not as an end.
• Even though you are more experienced with Full Stack Technologies, you are able or want to learn to be effective in other areas such as Infrastructure or Data Engineering, because you are a T-shaped Engineer.
• Professional proficiency in English. Spanish is a plus.

About you

• You want to join an ambitious, high-performing team that dreams about building something meaningful and impactful.
• You thrive in a culture of open, candid, and constructive feedback taking place in all directions.
• You leave your ego behind to make sure you accomplish what is best for your team and your company.
• You are looking for an exciting challenge, and compensation is only one of many factors to assess this opportunity (don’t worry, our compensation is competitive!).
• Your words and commitments are very important to you - you are reliable, punctual, and don\'t drop the ball.
• You embrace balance at work: you know when to go the extra mile, and when to slow down.
• You don\'t hesitate to take the initiative to solve the problems you identify without needing others to ask you to do so.

Our Values: CALIBER

We pride ourselves on having built an open, humble, diverse, supportive, and truly unique culture that revolves around our seven values codified in the word CALIBER:

• Customer Excellence: Our users have to experience excellence in all we do. Excellence attracts excellence. We hire people and technology smarter than us.
• Agility: Towards building adaptability to change and without compromising excellence. No analysis paralysis. A strong sense of urgency. We disagree and commit.
• Learning: To constantly learn and give constructive feedback in any direction towards personal and professional growth.
• Innovation: To lead through constant innovation that does not compromise simplicity. The impossible is possible.
• Balance: To not hesitate to go the extra mile when required and without waiting for someone to tell you. To also take time off any time you need it.
• Ethics: To be frugal and radically truthful and transparent and to never behave unethically. Cannot afford to die of success or arrogance.
• Respect: To suspend judgment and assume positive intent, to be compassionate, and to have no ego. Yes public and private 1) self-criticism (admit mistakes) and 2) gratitude and recognition.

We are also proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate, neither positively nor negatively, in hiring or in any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Our DNA: What drives success at FounderNest

At FounderNest, we believe that the best teams are built on shared traits. Here’s what makes someone succeed at FounderNest:

• Humility without Egos: To listen, learn, adapt, and grow together, prioritizing collective success over personal recognition. There is always something new to learn from others!
• Intellectual Ambition: To see challenges as opportunities and thrive in a team of brilliant minds. Always curious and resourceful, with a 10X mindset and first-principles thinking approach, we innovate, adapt, and ask: What’s next?
• Agency & Ownership: To be proactive, take initiative, embrace accountability, and lead and build with purpose in order to succeed in our high-performing environment.
• Hard-Working: To go the extra mile with focus and passion while ensuring balance is maintained, fostering sustainable long-term excellence.
• 100% Team Player: To always make decisions with the team in mind, knowing that collaboration doesn’t just add impact—it multiplies it. Together we are stronger.
• Outcome-Driven Mindset: To focus on making things happen—zero fluff, just real impact. It’s about owning results, moving fast, and focusing on what truly drives change.

We are committed to you

Personal & professional growth

• You will be a key part of a bright and international team that will support your growth, within a safe environment.
• You will have direct exposure to Silicon Valley, which includes some of the best investors and professionals in the world. We proudly count on many of them as our investors and advisors.
• Our target audience includes some of the coolest ICPs you can think of (e.g. Heads of Innovation, Heads of Ventures, Heads of Corporate Development).
• Elevate your skills as we tackle our most impactful challenges: We have achieved more than teams 15x our size in less time — and there’s so much more to do and learn.
• Exponential growth: We humbly say that 6 months at FounderNest may be equivalent to 2 years at any other company in terms of your growth. This is thanks to the pace at which we operate, the state-of-the-art practices and processes that drive our company, and the unparalleled caliber of the people you will get to work with. You’ll join at the perfect time to shape how we grow from here.

Compensation & Perks

• You will have a full-time contract (i.e. no freelance work).
• We will offer you a very competitive salary based on your past experience and future potential. We also want you to have stock options since we want you to grow as the company grows and to celebrate FounderNest’s success at all levels.
• Equipment : All you need to kill it at work. Just request it and we’ll do our best to get it for you.
• You will have a flexible schedule since we want you to have the freedom to organize your time towards achieving our ambitious goals.
• We have a mix of fully remote (within Spain) and hybrid employees, giving you the flexibility of remote work along with opportunities to collaborate in person at our offices in Madrid and California. Plus, we regularly organize activities, events, and off-sites to strengthen our team connections.
• Unlimited vacation policy, as long as you coordinate with your team and we meet our ambitious goals.
• 90/10 policy: Each team member can devote 10% of their time (usually a Friday every other week) to innovate and grow professionally.
• Birthday policy: We’ll celebrate your day, showing appreciation with a special gift.

Hiring process

• After you apply, we will review your submission and decide whether we invite you to a quick intro call with the Hiring Manager for this role.
• If we decide to invite you and this initial call goes well, we will then invite you to start a 3 step fast interview process that we promise will be exciting — you will get to meet some of the leaders and future peers at FounderNest, and you will get a great flavor of what working at FounderNest looks like.