Motion
Ex-Technical Founder / Founding Engineer
United States - Remote +1 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Dec 10, 2025
- Location
- United States - Remote
Canada - Remote - Experience
- Years of product-shipping experience requested; no specific number stated.
- Education
- Self-taught, bootcamp, or degree; the posting welcomes any background.
About the job
Build and ship AI-powered product features across Motion’s platform as a high-ownership individual-contributor engineer.
What you'll do
- Ship product features end to end, from understanding the problem through implementation and owning outcomes.
- Work on a small, cross-functional team and deliver to production quickly.
- Use AI to improve the product and engineering work across the stack.
What they ask for
- Recent experience as a technical founder, co-founder, or one of a startup’s first engineers, personally writing a meaningful share of the code.
- Product-shipping experience, ideally on a small team with ownership of outcomes.
- Ability to explain architectural decisions, tradeoffs, and how systems fit together.
- Comfort building without a spec.
Tools
React, Node.js with Express, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure
AI focus
Build AI-powered product features, including work on Runneth, Motion’s agentic creative strategy product, and help the team use AI more effectively.
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