#Founding Engineering & Product Leader

We%27re looking for our senior engineering and product leader, a founding-team hire who will take Yolk safely post launch and build the next stage of the product, and the team that comes with it.

We%27re now bringing in the senior leader who will set the engineering bar, decide when we%27re ready to launch, and grow both the platform and the team from there with a level of ownership only the earliest team members ever get.

This role carries more weight than most engineering jobs. The person who gets this right will have real authority to do it properly, and will help shape what Yolk.coach becomes.

A word of honesty

This is a founding-team role at an early-stage company, which means it is hands-on. You will get into the code. You will run the QA passes yourself. You will test a video session on a bad connection at 9pm because a launch depends on it. You will make calls with incomplete information and live with them. You%27ll lead an engineering team, but you%27ll lead by doing, not just directing. If you want a purely strategic seat with people beneath you to execute, this is the wrong role. If you want to own the hardest, most consequential technical problems in the company and see them through, read on.

What you%27ll do

• Reliability of realtime AI agents, audio and chat sessions on a user%27s old laptop and a sales rep%27s poor wifi, not just a developer%27s machine.
• Leading and growing the engineering and product team.
• Security and privacy of sensitive sales conversation data — the controls that keep us defensible, and an independent security review before we go live.
• End-to-end quality of the booking-and-payments flow, including the failure paths most teams skip.
• The product direction post-launch — what we build next, in what order, and why.

What we%27re looking for

• 8+ years building software, with senior or lead engineering experience and you%27ve carried real product responsibility, not just executed someone else%27s spec.
• Hands-on operator first, leader second: you lead through doing.
• You%27ve shipped a B2B consumer-facing product that impacts clients%27 revenue, to production and through real users.
• You work directly and candidly with a non-technical founder.
• You%27ve worked somewhere where the product and user experience are real. You%27re not learning why it matters here.
• You can run a security review and stand up the controls behind it yourself, not just brief someone else to.
• Strong communicator who can translate technical decisions for non-technical stakeholders.
• You don%27t wait for a PM to hand you a roadmap — you proactively connect data capabilities to business outcomes.

Nice to have

• You%27ve been part of an early-stage or founding team before and know how to operate without much process.
• You have experience developing consumer-grade B2B and understand what product polish means to users.