# Software Engineer - Company: [Ployai]() - Location: San Francisco - Remote: Yes - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: July 7, 2026 ## Job description ## About Ploy Ploy is building an AI-native growth engine for modern marketing teams — combining high-leverage product experiences with reliable, scalable systems. We’re a small, fast-moving team shipping new product surfaces weekly and hardening them for real production traffic. If you enjoy building end-to-end products, sweating details, and scaling what you ship, you’ll fit in well. ## The role As a **Founding Engineer**, you’ll work across the stack to build core product experiences and the systems behind them. You’ll partner closely with product and design, own projects from idea → shipped → scaled, and help shape the engineering culture and technical direction as we grow. ## What you’ll do * Build 0→1 product features end-to-end: discovery, technical design, implementation, launch, and iteration. * Use the latest AI tools every day — build with them, push their limits, and learn alongside teammates doing the same. * Ship across the stack (web app, backend services, data, infrastructure) with a bias toward simple, durable systems. * Build product experiences with strong UX quality: interaction design, performance, and polish. * Design and operate systems that scale: reliability, observability, capacity planning, cost/performance trade-offs. * Improve our engineering foundations: architecture, tooling, CI, testing, release processes, and on-call hygiene. * Collaborate tightly with founders and teammates, turning ambiguous problems into crisp execution. ## What we’re looking for ### Must-haves * Strong track record building and shipping **0→1** products (startup, new product line, or major greenfield initiative). * Comfortable as a true **full-stack** engineer (front-end + backend), and willing to go wherever the work is. * Strong product sense: you can reason about user workflows, trade-offs, and “what matters” without needing perfect specs. * Design intuition: you care about craft, and you can implement clean UI with attention to detail. * Systems mindset: you enjoy making software fast, reliable, and maintainable as usage grows. ### Nice-to-haves * Experience scaling products and systems through inflection points (10× traffic, new customer segments, new pricing/billing complexity). * Experience with AI-powered products (LLMs, agentic systems, evaluation/observability, prompt/tooling pipelines). * Prior experience as an early engineer or founder in a high-ownership environment. * Experience in the web and marketing space ## How we work * Small teams, high ownership, fast iteration. * Engineers own product: you’ll partner directly with design and founders, and have real agency over what we build and why. * Pragmatic engineering: ship quickly, then harden with the right abstractions. * We value clear thinking, taste, and accountability over ceremony. ## Apply [Apply on Ployai]() Canonical job page: