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Founding Engineer
aradus
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Lead
4 weeks ago
TypeScriptNext.jsReactPostgresAI Agent DevelopmentData Pipeline Design
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About the Role
aradus is seeking a Founding Engineer to build the AI operations layer for global trade. This equity-first role involves full-stack development, AI agent architecture, and data pipeline design.
Key Skills for This Role
TypeScriptNext.jsReactPostgresAI Agent DevelopmentData Pipeline Design
Responsibilities
- Architect autonomous AI agents that process messy trade data and execute multi step workflows
- Design scalable data ingestion and reconciliation pipelines across third party integrations
- Drive full stack development on multi tenant TypeScript SaaS
- Design AI infrastructure primitives: modular tool layers, extraction frameworks, evaluation harnesses
- Talk to users and translate insights into code
- Make foundational architectural decisions and ship relentlessly
Requirements
- Deep hands on experience with Next.js and React
- Experience building agentic systems with modern TypeScript AI frameworks
- Strong backend skills (Postgres, APIs, background jobs)
- Startup DNA: bias toward action, ability to cut scope to ship
- Experience with tool calling, multi step reasoning, structured outputs, and context management
- Ability to work full time after seed round closes
- Experience in supply chain, logistics, freight, or trade (bonus)
- Previous founder experience (bonus)
- Experience deploying AI to production (bonus)
Full Job Posting
The Role
- This isn't a role where you pull well defined tickets from a backlog. As Founding Engineer, you'll operate across the entire stack, make foundational architectural decisions, and ship relentlessly.
- You'll work directly with the founders to shape the product, the engineering culture, and the trajectory of the company.
What You'll Own
- Autonomous AI systems: Architect agents that process messy, unstructured trade data, execute complex multi step workflows, and build organizational memory over time.
- Resilient data pipelines: Design scalable ingestion and reconciliation pipelines across third party integrations (carriers, ERPs, customs, banking) with strict idempotency, deduplication, and retry strategies.
- Core platform architecture: Drive full stack development on our multi tenant TypeScript SaaS: complex domain logic, real time syncs, heavy background job orchestration.
- AI infrastructure: Design the primitives our agents and pipelines stand on: modular tool layers, reusable extraction frameworks, evaluation harnesses, prompt and schema versioning.
- Product trajectory: Talk to users, learn the deep complexities of global trade, and translate those insights directly into the codebase.
Who You Are
- A builder of agentic systems: You've moved beyond basic prompts. You understand tool calling, multi step reasoning, structured outputs, and context management, and you've shipped real agentic systems in modern TypeScript AI frameworks.
- An infrastructure thinker: You instinctively reach for primitives, modularity, and clean abstractions.
- Startup DNA: You bias toward action. You ruthlessly cut scope to ship today while still investing in architecture.
- Frontend strong, comfortable across the stack: You have deep hands on experience with Next.js and React and can ship polished, snappy product UI fast. You're solid on the backend too (Postgres, APIs, background jobs).
Bonus Points
- You've worked in supply chain, logistics, freight, or trade.
- You've been a founder before.
- You've taken AI to production.
The Deal
- Cash compensation: not yet. A full, competitive base salary kicks in the moment our seed round closes.
- Equity: founding level and meaningful.
- The upside: A ground floor seat to rewire a multi trillion dollar industry. A live product with paying customers. Revenue on the board.
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