Founding Full-Stack Engineer

New York City · Full-time · In person

We’re hiring a Founding Full-Stack Engineer to help build and ship Gambit’s first production system.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused role working closely with a Founding Principal Engineer and the founders. You’ll implement core product features across the stack, ship to real users, and help turn working prototypes into a reliable, user-ready product.

What you’ll work on

Build and ship core product features across frontend, backend, and APIs

  1. Implement user-facing flows and internal tools that interact with real-time systems

  2. Integrate cloud services with on-device perception and hardware signals

  3. Help productionize early systems with a focus on reliability, performance, and maintainability

  4. Work inside a fast-moving monorepo with real users and real constraints

Frontend: TypeScript, Svelte (React experience welcome)

  1. Backend & APIs: Go, Node, Python

  2. Infrastructure: AWS

  3. Integrations: real-time CV and thermal pipelines

Tech stack

What we’re looking for

4–6 years of professional software engineering experience

  • Strong in TypeScript and modern frontend development

  • Comfortable working across backend systems (Go, Node, or Python)

  • Able to own features end-to-end, from implementation through production

  • Thrives in ambiguity and enjoys shipping before everything is perfectly defined

  • Excited to work on real products that interact with hardware and the physical world

Work alongside an experienced founding team (Founder of MongoDB + ex-Google AI)

  1. Build a real product used daily in people’s homes

  2. Huge ownership and visibility at an early-stage company

  3. Exposure to real-time systems, hardware integration, and production engineering

Why gambit

How to apply

Email careers@gambitrobotics.com with a short note about yourself and anything relevant (GitHub, LinkedIn, past systems you’ve built, or problems you’ve owned).