Senior Software Engineer
Orthogonal provides a unified integration for AI agents to discover, access, and pay for verified APIs and services.
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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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About the Role
You will be one of the first engineering hires, working directly with the founders on full-stack work using a TypeScript backend, a Next.js frontend, and Postgres on Vercel. You will ship features quickly with research, product, and design, write clean code, join code reviews, own features through deployment and production support, and mentor teammates.
Requirements
- 5+ years of full-stack experience with a high-growth company
- Background in startups or a fast-paced product environment
- Solid grasp of data structures, system design, and API design
- Experience leading projects or mentoring engineers
- Based in SF or willing to relocate
- Bonus: experience in payments/crypto
Responsibilities
- Collaborate across research, product, and design to ship features quickly
- Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to documentation
- Participate in code reviews and design discussions
- Solve scalability and reliability challenges
- Own features end to end, including deployment, monitoring, and production support
- Mentor teammates and contribute to engineering best practices
Benefits
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
- Flexible work schedule and open vacation policy
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- Wellness and commute stipends
- Tools provided (laptop, monitor, etc.)
Hiring Process
Intro conversation with recruiting team, conversation with a Co-Founder, technical interview, work trial / onsite, offer.