Founding Engineer

⏳ 5-7 years experience
🏠 Sydney, Remote
💻 Python, React, Terraform, Pydantic, FastAPI, AWS
💵 $100 p/h
✅ Open to working for equity

“I'm looking for a Founding style role understanding a problem space and building a solution to that problem"

Architected and built the entire real-time security detection system for Okta, enabling security practitioners to schedule analysis of data at enterprise scale. This system was responsible for running all of Okta's internal security detections. Currently exploring how LLMs and agentic workflows can solve emerging problems, seeking B2B SaaS opportunities with experienced founding teams.

Expert Tips: How hiring career changers can be an advantage for early stage startups 🚀

We sat down with Huon Latham, who spent half a decade at General Assembly watching startups succeed (and fail) at hiring developers.

After placing so many career changers into tech roles, Huon shared some of the biggest mistakes she sees founders make such as:

• Not being clear on role outcomes - what success looks like week-to-week and if that appeals to the candidate

• Hiring one token diverse candidate instead of 2-3 who can support each other, leading to high probability of failre

• Overlooking career changers who bring business skills CS grads often lack

For real examples of hiring manager who go it right (and wrong) and critical advice on attracting and retaining women on a dev team, read the interview below.

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Tech Co-Founder / Senior Full-Stack Developer - AI-Powered Video Editing

📍 Sydney (Hybrid), Remote
💵 Equity-based
⏳ Flexible hours
👥 1-5 person team

Join an AI-powered real-time video editing solution for live events that automatically delivers branded, social-ready segments, reels and clips within minutes. Build a feature-rich video streaming application that automates video acquisition, editing, processing, and delivery - from instant graduation stage-crossing clips to real-time award winner highlights.

You'll lead the engineering team and work alongside founders to design and develop a platform supporting multi-room, multi-stream capture, custom branding, instant delivery, and cloud-based storage. This is an opportunity for an ambitious engineer to grow with the company, lead development, and eliminate the need for expensive manual editing in the events industry.

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Tech Co-Founder - AI personal legacy platform

📍 Sydney (Hybrid), Remote
💵 Equity-based
⏳ Flexible hours
👥 1-5 person team

Join a mission-driven startup building an AI-powered personal legacy platform that helps individuals preserve their memories and life stories in a secure, engaging, and meaningful way for themselves and future generations. Work closely with the founder to design, build, and iterate the MVP from the ground up, with a clear business plan and growing support network.

The founder is seeking someone who can learn fast, grow with the project, and feels genuinely inspired by the mission of building a product with long-term social impact and global potential.

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About SkillsRobin

SkillsRobin is an open-source employee referral program that connects startups with pre-vetted technical talent through trusted industry referrers.

Our fees are simple and founder-friendly:

• No upfront costs - you only pay when you hire

• $500 for part-time hires, $2,000 for full-time hires - only pay once they join your team

• 6-month guarantee - additional fee of the same amount only if hire stays 6+ months

• 10-20x cheaper than traditional recruiting agencies

• 25% discount on all fees for early, bootstrapping startups (<A$100,000 in funding raised or ARR < $100,000)

Candidates are developers based in ANZ, interested in working with early stage startups and come with referrals from industry professionals, saving you time in the initial screening process.