Tempo is looking for an experienced software engineer with a founder mindset to take a critical role in our rapidly growing early-stage startup. At Tempo, we believe software will be built 10x faster with teams leveraging the perfect combination of AI agents and collaborative tools. The platform we’ve built makes this future vision a reality, leading our company to an inflection point of growth. This role is an opportunity to join us early as we prepare to scale up in our market.
Your responsibilitiesBe a critical part of technical and product roadmap, we expect all of our engineers to be act like owners of the business, making decisions with a founder-like mentality
Build products across our stack (using Typescript, Node, and more) that enable our customers to build web apps 10x faster
Embrace our AI-first culture at every level. Find creative and novel ways to leverage AI at every part of the stack, from the React designer AI, to our network of asynchronous development agents, and for our own development processes
Collaborate directly with our team and customers to ship high leverage features, while iterating as fast as possible
Have a blast working at a quickly growing startup!
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
Has professional experience building full-stack applications (at least 3 years of professional full-time development experience, React experience a plus)
Is extremely talented and good at what you do (You execute complex tasks in half the time of your peers)
Has professional experience building and owning production-grade products in real life (not pet projects or projects for clients)
Has a very product and customer focused mindset
Has been bitten by enough code quality and maintenance issues in production codebases/systems to be opinionated on how they should be built
Is self-driven and can roll with the punches in a fast-paced environment where priorities and requirements may change frequently
Are an ex-founder OR worked at an early-stage startup previously (Series A or earlier)
Have an eye for visual design (or past experience in product design, Figma, etc)
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- At least 3 years of professional full-time software development experience
- Professional experience building full-stack applications
- Professional experience building and owning production-grade products
- Product- and customer-focused mindset
- Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, changing environment
- React experience
- Experience at an early-stage startup or as a founder
- Visual design or product design experience, including Figma
What We Do
Tempo Labs develops an AI-powered software factory and visual development platform for product teams. Its tools let product managers, designers, and engineers collaborate on web applications and code, combining collaborative design capabilities with IDE-like functionality and AI agents. The platform helps teams turn requirements and feedback into production-ready applications and reviewed pull requests, with a focus on accelerating software development.
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