You started a company: maybe it sold, maybe it shut down, maybe you're still on the cap table of something that's quietly winding down while you read this. You learned to ship without permission, talk to users without a script, and hold the whole stack in your head. If you're between things, this listing is the reason.
We don't have a job slot waiting for you, but we'd rather meet you now than miss you later.
About Lingo.devWe started at a hackathon, won best dev tool, and kept going. Today: hundreds of users, 7,000 weekly CLI runs, 5,000 GitHub stars, 200M+ translated words, backed by YC, Initialized, and paying customers.
We're a small team, fully remote, senior with computer science degrees. We write the code, answer the support tickets, and talk to our users on Discord every day.
What you'd probably doWe won't know until we talk, the real options are: own a product surface end to end (web, CLI, API, agents, integrations); be the founding engineer of a product line we haven't started yet; or bring a wedge we missed and we'll fund it if it fits.
Pay matches seniority, equity matches conviction, title is whatever's useful - choose your own.
What we look forYou shipped a real product to real users. Revenue, GitHub stars, downloads, paying customers, pick your proof.
You write TypeScript fluently. Bonus for Effect, Drizzle, TanStack, Cloudflare, Postgres.
You use AI coding tools daily and have strong opinions about them.
You argue clearly in writing.
You're available 7–10am San Francisco time.
You write English the way you'd speak it.
Whether your company succeeded. Most don't. We care what you learned.
Where you went to school.
Whether you've worked at a "name" company.
A polished resume. A link to the thing you built is better.
Tell us:
What you built and what happened to it.
The most interesting technical decision you made and why.
What you'd want to work on next if money weren't a constraint.
Please don't use AI to auto apply - we'll know.
If it's a fit: founder call, paid project, one-month paid trial, offer.
Don't apply ifYou want to be CEO again next quarter. Be honest with yourself, and with us.
You're looking for a sabbatical with a salary.
You need a clear ladder and a six-month roadmap to feel safe.
You build for the resume.
Skills Required
- Shipped a real product to real users (revenue, stars, downloads, or paying customers)
- Write TypeScript fluently
- Use AI coding tools daily and have strong opinions about them
- Argue clearly in writing
- Available 7-10am San Francisco time
- Write English conversationally (write the way you speak)
- Experience with Effect
- Experience with Drizzle
- Experience with TanStack
- Experience with Cloudflare
- Experience with Postgres
What We Do
Lingo.dev is a localization engineering platform where teams create localization engines—stateful translation APIs configured with glossaries, brand voice rules, per-locale model preferences, and quality scoring. It uses retrieval augmented localization (RAL) to persist domain context and provides automated AI localization for multilingual software, eliminating manual translation management and agency back-and-forth.
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