Engineer

About Forward

Forward is a consulting firm that works exclusively with independent consultants to help startups build their engineering organizations.

About the Work

Keywords: typescript, react, AI agents

Budget: $7-8k/month

Hours per week: 40

Term: 6-12+ months

Location: Latam strongly preferred

Working hours: 7-8 hours overlap with ET

Start date: Early October

Company stage: Pre-seed

Context

We're working with a company building an AI assistant that can work across your professional and personal calendars, social networks and more.

The team has a live TypeScript, event-driven platform running a microservices architecture backed by Postgres and some BigQuery. You'd build across the full stack, and there is an opportunity to own the agentic harnesses for both the product and automation for the team's own dev tooling.

You'll ship features end to end while reworking parts of that infrastructure so it's more predictable to build against with AI tooling. It is a small team, so the work will be highly collaborative with the technical co-founder.

About You

Roughly in order of importance:

  • You have shipped products at early stage startups
  • You have experience with TypeScript, React, microservices, and Postgres
  • You have built agent harnesses or internal dev tooling
  • Experience working with large datasets is a plus
  • You enjoy a collaborating on product development ideation
  • You have 7+ years experience

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