Full stack engineer

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• This is a full-time, in-person role based in San Francisco (Presidio) - we work from the office 5 days a week.

• You must be based in the Bay Area or willing to relocate before starting.

• We require US work authorisation, but are open to O-1 visa sponsorship for truly exceptional candidates.

About Wordware

Wordware is an IDE for building AI agents using natural language.

It looks and feels like Notion, but lets you design, test, and deploy AI systems in real time - without writing code.

Our mission is to bring structure and joy to human–AI collaboration.

We’re building a generational company that empowers the next billion knowledge workers to create with AI - not by writing code, but by expressing intent.

We’re backed by Spark Capital, Felicis, and Y Combinator ($30M seed round - the largest in YC history).

We work hard, move fast, and don’t take ourselves too seriously. It’s intense, but it’s also fun - at Wordware, you’ll do the best work of your life alongside people you genuinely like.

Full Stack Engineer

What You’ll Do

You’ll write and ship full-stack features end to end — from frontend UI, to backend logic, to the database and infra.

We’re still a small team, and the product is early — you won’t just be building features; you’ll help shape the trajectory of the company and the future of AI development.

Here are a few examples of the kinds of things you might work on:

• Build a real-time, multiplayer IDE for AI development — think Google Docs meets VSCode, powered by Y.js and TipTap.

• Extend our executor: a custom runtime that turns natural language into live, traceable agent workflows with pause/resume and retries.

• Design the “GitHub for AI” — an interface for exploring, remixing, and sharing agents and flows with versioning and collaborative editing.

• Talk to users, debug live issues, and ship fixes fast — often the same day.

• Make product calls in the moment when things are ambiguous, and help shape the platform we’re building.

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Stack

TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, Y.js, and TipTap.

Who you are

Minimum

• You have 4+ years of engineering experience, with a strong track record of shipping real products.

• You’re fluent in TypeScript and comfortable working across the stack — frontend, backend, and database.

• You’ve built and owned complex full-stack systems end to end, not just small pieces.

• You’re comfortable with ambiguity, unblock yourself, and make progress without waiting on perfect specs.

• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, high-trust startup environment and like wearing multiple hats.

Bonus (but not required)

• You’ve worked with our stack: React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Cloudflare Durable Objects.

• You’ve built or integrated with LLM-based tools and have hands-on experience with AI workflows.

• You’ve been a founder or early-stage engineer before, and care deeply about product.

The Process

We keep our process simple. Exceptional candidates go from first touch to offer within 2 weeks.

1. Application

   Submit your resume and answer a few short questions. If it looks like a fit, we’ll invite you to send a 1-minute Loom video: tell us who you are and why you want to join Wordware.

2. 15-minute intro call

   Quick check to align on location, motivation, and logistics. If it’s a go, we move fast from here.

3. 45-minute technical interview

   You’ll build a small full-stack app. We’re looking for fluency, speed, and product sense.

4. System design interview

   A deep dive into how you think and architect systems. We’ll walk through a real Wordware problem together.

5. Final conversation

   Quick vibe check, answer your questions, and scope out the work trial.

6. Work trial

   Paid trial to work on a real project in person with us — usually a few days to two weeks (flexible to do what works for you). See how we work and whether this feels like the right fit on both sides.

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