Founding Agentic Backend Engineer (Senior / Staff)

About Variant

Creative intelligence

The role

## About the role**Software should be beautiful.**Variant is code generation with creativity and taste. Instead of a confined conversation, you can generate endless designs from a single idea. Freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result.We're well-capitalized and looking for a **founding engineer** to own the back end of Variant, where our agents operate.\**The ideal candidate:*** At least one of: * Has done impactful work at a company known for its high-quality backend or agentic applications * Majorly contributed to a notable open source project * Has a seriously impressive portfolio* Has experience building agentic applications with sophisticated harnesses and orchestration* Has built the backend for an app that manages complex project state* Knows that building a startup is really hard work and is fully committed* Doesn’t compromise between quality and shipping fast* See what needs to be done and does it* Under promises, over delivers* Know when to be outspoken or disagree and commit\\*\*We hold ourselves to these same principles.\*\*\\We've kept our team small by design. Your code will matter from day one, and its impact will compound over time. **This will be the most meaningful work of your career**.\\We work from a beautiful space in San Francisco where we dream up the future and make it real together. We’re well-capitalized and backed by notable investors.\\If you've built things you're proud of, we'd love to see them.# About Variant**Software should be beautiful.**Variant generates software that’s actually well designed. Instead of a confined conversation, it creates endless designs from a single idea. You can freely explore, discover directions you wouldn’t have thought of, and build better software as a result.We call this generative creativity. And it’s how creating software should work.