elyos - Founding Engineer

• Customer-obsessed: You start with the customer. You empathise with their needs, ask the right questions, and build with their success in mind. • Biased for action: You try stuff. You move quickly, experiment often, and aren’t afraid to learn in public. • Owner’s mindset: You don’t wait for permission - you take responsibility for outcomes and raise the bar for the whole team. • Ambitious & bold: You think big and take bets. You’re excited to explore new ideas, technologies, and markets that others might shy away from. • Team-first collaborator: You make the next pot of coffee. No task is beneath you, and you care about building a team where everyone can thrive. • Care deeply: You give a shit about the quality of your work. If something you built isn’t great, it nags at you until you make it better. • Strong fundamentals in software engineering - you can design, debug, and ship reliable systems. • Proficiency with at least one of our core languages (Python or TypeScript) - or proof that you can learn what's needed. • Experience building and shipping AI products end-to-end (at a startup, on a side project, in open source, or at scale in a larger company). • Comfort working across the stack - frontend, backend, infrastructure. You are everywhere. • Ability to work directly with customers or non-technical stakeholders to scope, negotiate, and deliver solutions. • A track record that shows drive: maybe you’ve launched something on your own, contributed to open source, or taken ownership of hairy projects others avoided. • Early-stage startup experience, especially in AI, voice platforms, or event-driven systems. • Familiarity with modern cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, serverless, distributed systems). • Evidence of customer empathy - support experience, founder experience, or just building things that solved real user pain.