Founding Engineer
Orthogonal provides a unified integration for AI agents to discover, access, and pay for verified APIs and services. Its platform serves GTM teams, investors, marketers, recruiters, and AI-native startups through metered API access.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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About Orthogonal
Orthogonal operates an infrastructure platform for AI agents. It provides a discovery layer, runtime, SDK, MCP server, CLI, and REST API that let agents find capabilities, call services through pooled credentials, normalize responses, and pay per request. The platform connects users to dozens of verified providers for company data, web search, email, enrichment, scraping, identity verification, and other services. Orthogonal primarily serves GTM teams, AI-native startups, and developers building production agent workflows.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, and ship across the full stack. You will develop backend services, APIs, infrastructure, integrations, and high-throughput systems while building dashboards, provider catalogs, and developer experiences with Next.js and React. You will own features from database to user interface, write production-quality code, review code, design technical solutions, improve testing and observability, and optimize reliability and performance.
Requirements
- Computer Science fundamentals
- Data structures
- Algorithms
- Systems fundamentals
- Full-stack development
- REST API
- Microservices
- Database-driven application
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Node.js
- Python
- Testing
- Debugging
- Monitoring
- Performance optimization
- Distributed systems
- Computer Science degree or equivalent practical experience
- AI/ML infrastructure
- Agent framework
- Developer tooling
- Cloud infrastructure
- Vercel
- Render
- CI/CD
- Open source
Responsibilities
- Write production-quality code
- Review peers' work
- Design technical solutions
- Participate in architectural discussions
- Own frontend and backend features end-to-end
- Build API integrations
- Build developer tooling
- Build core platform features
- Translate user needs into robust features
- Shape architecture and engineering culture
Benefits
- Equity
