Founding Engineer @ Cape

About Us

We’re venture-backed founders building an agent for networking, starting with warm intros in the sales space. We’re run by an experienced team (founders have 10+ years at YC-backed startups, ex-Stanford / Harvard), funded, and have found early pmf with several dozen companies ranging from seed to Series C.

tldr;

• Remote / in-person in NYC (we’ll pay for office space / monitors)

• Part of founding team on the way to pmf

• Build agents and hack on social algorithms

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our core agent (and test it on your own network use cases)

• Use prompt engineering and fine-tuning with foundation LLMs

• Contribute everywhere and own technical decisions (ex new design pattern, architect agent development)

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of software engineering experience, strong coding skills

• Remote or in-person (founders are in NY / engineers in Singapore)

• Experience with customizing Copilot / Cursor / Windsurf to speed up development

• Experience deploying and maintaining services in a distributed systems environment (handle failures, measure latency)

• Experience with our stack - Typescript, Postgres, NextJS, Prisma, Docker

• Experience with LLM fine-tuning and deployment

• Experience with tools like Langsmith and Langchain for building agents