You will architect the platform powering the next generation of consumer brands. While others ship customer workflows, you'll build the underlying engine: durable agent runtimes, enterprise integrations (NetSuite, Shopify), and robust orchestration. Your work ensures AI agents operate reliably at scale, helping brands grow profits by up to 40%.
Founding Engineer at Corvera
Join the top 10% of YC’s W26 batch as a Founding Engineer building the AI-native operating system for global CPG brands. Having scaled to $35K MRR in just two months, this $6.3M-funded startup is replacing manual back-office drudgery with an autonomous agent workforce. You'll architect durable agent runtimes and enterprise-scale orchestration systems alongside a world-class team in San Francisco. If you're a distributed systems expert who thrives in high-velocity environments and wants to own the platform that helps brands grow profits by 40%, this is the ride of a lifetime.
Overview
Role overview
Company
Corvera
$6.3M YC-backed AI agent workforce for CPG back-office
Responsibilities
What you will do
- Architect and ship durable agent runtimes that survive shutdowns and resume across deployments using tools like Daytona and Blaxel microVMs.
- Build a productized integration layer for ERPs and retailers like NetSuite and Amazon, exposed to agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Design the brand's business ontology and queryable source of truth, ensuring business logic remains consistent and governed across all automated workflows.
Candidate profile
Who this is a fit for
- Has 4+ years of production experience in Python (FastAPI/asyncio) and 3+ years in TypeScript/React, with a focus on building resilient distributed systems.
- Possesses deep expertise in durable execution patterns (Temporal/Inngest), idempotency, and architecting agentic harnesses with multi-turn context management.
- Thrives in a high-intensity "996" startup culture, defaults to AI-assisted development (Cursor/Claude Code), and prioritizes massive customer impact over abstract code elegance.
What makes it remarkable
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a top 10% YC batch startup (W26) that scaled from $0 to $35K MRR in just two months with elite backing from 20VC, Firstminute, and Rebel Fund.
- Own the entire engineering platform including durable execution, agent sandboxes, and complex business ontologies in a high-velocity, mission-critical environment.
- Work with an elite, tight-knit founding team in San Francisco that lives and breathes the mission, offering unreasonable leverage and significant equity upside.
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