Full-Time
Founding Engineer
Capy
1-10 employees
AI-powered autonomous agents for complex codebases
Compensation Overview
$150k - $250k/yr
San Francisco, CA, USA
In Person
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- Minimum of 1 year full-time software engineering experience
- Proficiency in TypeScript (Next.js) for backend development
- Experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, QEMU, AWS and GCP for infrastructure
- Strong product sense and track record of driving outcomes
- Excellent communication skills
- High ownership
- Love shipping quickly and being in fast-paced environment
- Develop and maintain the backend and infrastructure for large-scale products used by thousands of developers
- Work across the frontend, implementing cohesive, high-quality UI
Capy builds an AI-native software engineering platform that runs autonomous AI agents in secure, dedicated virtual environments. Its core product, Scrapybara, offers instant, secure virtual desktops via an API, enabling AI agents to perform long-horizon tasks on large codebases without needing external browsers or ad-hoc APIs. The system executes on its own virtual machine asynchronously, reducing deployment time from hours to seconds and providing a scalable, secure environment for agents to browse, process, and modify code and tasks. Capy is differentiating itself by delivering a purpose-built infrastructure for AI agents to operate inside a controlled computing environment, rather than relying on general APIs or unstable browser contexts. The company’s goal is to provide infrastructure-as-a-service that enables companies to deploy autonomous AI agents to handle complex operational tasks across software development, data processing, and workflow automation.
Company Size
1-10
Company Stage
Seed
Total Funding
$130K
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Founded
2024
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Claude 4's strong reasoning and safety drive agentic coding innovation in 2025–2026.
- MCPs enable agents to install plugins like Slack for dynamic context pulling.
- Agentic AI shifts from one-off help to broader software engineering roles by 2026.
What critics are saying
- Name confusion with Anthoni's 'Capybara' mutes brand and causes security liability misattribution.
- Phishing attacks stealing employee credentials risk access to agent VMs and codebases.
- Shadow AI exposure could leak PII if third-party agent identities lack proper oversight.
What makes Capy unique
- Capy runs 25+ parallel AI agents in isolated VMs, eliminating merge conflicts.
- Its two-agent architecture (Captain + Build) decomposes work and executes tasks automatically.
- Capy offers model-agnostic support, mixing Claude, GPT, and Gemini for specific tasks.
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