Founding Engineer – Staff/Senior

Location: San Francisco, CA
Type: Full-time, In-person

Flowtel is building the next-generation operating system for hospitality, powered by modern AI agents that can handle everything from booking to room service. We just launched, secured $3 million in seed funding, and are backed by Y Combinator.

Flowtel is an AI-first company. Every part of the business uses AI thoughtfully—product, sales, marketing, operations, support, and of course, engineering all run with AI at the core. We keep our team small and talented, so everyone is an engineer at heart, hands-on with code, systems, and product decisions.

What We're Looking For

High Agency
Extreme AI coding experience
Loves agents more than humans

Compensation

Senior Engineer: $120K–$180K + ~0.5% equity
Ex-founder/Staff Level: $180K–$250K + 1%–3% equity

About the company

Flowtel provides an AI-powered operating system for hospitality that unifies hotel operations across guest services, staff management, and asset care. Its modular platform includes TEAM for AI-driven recruiting and onboarding, FLOW for daily services with digital checklists and AI-prioritized tickets, and CHECK for automated inspections and predictive asset analytics. Accessed via a mobile app, Flowtel enables real-time staff communication, task management, and coordination of bookings, service requests, and equipment health. Its target is small- to mid-sized independent and boutique hotels, differentiating itself by offering an end-to-end, modular system that connects guests, staff, and internal systems in one solution, backed by Y Combinator and Zeev Ventures.

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

Flowtel claims $63K recovered per 100 rooms and a 4.7 customer rating.
Its website says average go-live takes five days, a strong adoption speed signal.
Updated August 2026 pages and open hiring show active product and market expansion.

What critics are saying

Canary Technologies, HiJiffy, and Duve already dominate hotel guest-automation buying lists in 2026.
Flowtel depends on PMS integrations; Mews, Cloudbeds, and Opera control distribution leverage.
If AI concierge features commoditize, Flowtel becomes a replaceable feature by 2027.

What makes Flowtel unique

Flowtel unifies TEAM, FLOW, and CHECK into one hotel operations stack.
Flowtel combines voice, chat, staffing, housekeeping, and maintenance automation for independent hotels.
YC W25 backing and a January 2026 $3 million seed round signal credibility.

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