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Founding Engineer/Tech Lead

Engineering · Posted 3 months ago

We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 3-8 years of experience to join as the technical co-pilot to the CEO at Ambra, an AI company automating how ambulance agencies get paid by insurance. This is a path-to-CTO role, you'll own customers end-to-end, ship fast with AI-native tooling, and help build the engineering...

Way of working
Hybrid
Location
South Park, San Francisco, CA
Pay range
$175,000 to $250,000
Level
Staff
Experience
5 to 10 years
Type
Full time
Visa sponsorship
Not offered for this role
The company
Public Safety · under 20 people

Skills that matter here

GoPostgreSQLGoogle CloudReactLLMsRAGAPIsPlaywrightCloud CruiseCursor

The full description

We are looking for a Founding Engineer with 3-8 years of experience to join as the technical co-pilot to the CEO at Ambra, an AI company automating how ambulance agencies get paid by insurance. This is a path-to-CTO role, you'll own customers end-to-end, ship fast with AI-native tooling, and help build the engineering culture from the ground up as the company closes its first $1M+ ARR contract.

What will you be doing?

- Own entire customer accounts — from feature rollouts to forward-deployed engineering work

- Build backend systems that stitch together data, integrations, and browser automations to automate insurance billing workflows

- Ship production code at high velocity using AI-native development tools (Cursor, Claude, RALPH loops)

- Talk directly to billers, fire chiefs, and ops leaders to translate their needs into product

- Architect scalable infrastructure as the company onboards its largest contracts (top 3 EMS agencies in the US)

How hiring runs

  1. 1Behavioral Interview with Ayla, CEO/Co-founder (30 min)
  2. 2Technical Behavioral Interview with August, Founding Engineer (15 min)
  3. 3Take-Home Assignment
  4. 4Take-Home Walkthrough with August, Founding Engineer (30-45 min)
  5. 5Work Trial (2 days)

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