Job title:
Founding Engineer
Company
Reintersect
Job description
About Reintersect:At Reintersect, we’re building a future where no one has to deal with hundreds of conversation fragments in Slack channels, manually updating Confluence, and other work things that waste your time.To make that happen, we’re reimagining what async collaboration looks like.Something like Slack, but designed to be more mindful and way faster. A place in which everyone automatically has the right information at the right time, intelligently prioritised.Something like Notion, but designed to be intelligent by creating documents you won’t have to update every time something changes. These Living Docs update themselves as your company knowledge changes, because we’ve never seen someone excited to update Confluence.This is only scratching the surface of what we’re working towards, but if you’ve ever worked with Slack/Notion you probably know why we’re doing this.Why we’re looking for you:To make all this happen, we need an extra pair of hands. Only one of us writes code and competition in this niche is pretty fierce. You’d be joining as a Founding Engineer. This means you’d work with our CTO (Bruno) to build the product & solve our customers’ problems.What we believe in (when it comes to work):
- We don’t believe in a 9-to-5 work schedule. This doesn’t mean we believe in a 9-to-9 work schedule. 40 hours is completely fine. Honestly, if you work over that we’ll be worried. What we mean is that different people work differently. Our CTO tends to start work about 10am because that’s the time he wakes up at. We really don’t care how, where, or when you get stuff done. As long as you come to scheduled meetings, talk to us, and get stuff done, we really don’t care how/where/when it happens.
- We believe in thoughtful candor + constructive criticism. If you think any of us is screwing things up, you can tell us. We won’t fire you for thinking differently than us, the whole point of hiring you is that you think differently than us. The only thing that matters to us here is that it’s thoughtful. Neither of us will look at your work and say “wow man, this sucks”. What we will do if we don’t like something, is say “I don’t like this because X, I think we could do Y better, and that would help us reach Z goal faster”.
- Everyone’s take matters. We will ask you your opinion on what we’re doing and how you think we could do it better. Traditional company structures suck (we’ve been there) so we’re not going to adhere to that a whole lot.
Why this job could be the right one for you:
- You believe in what we’re doing because you’ve experienced the Slack/Notion mess.
- You want to get in on the ground floor with an up-and-coming startup.
- You want to work at a job that doesn’t work like a “normal” job. (yes, we know what a lot of companies mean when they say this. we’re not going to make you work 80 hours a week. we’re not saving lives here.)
Tasks
- You will take part in defining how we do things. This means significant input on infrastructure, tech stack, and everything that makes our product what it is.
- Together with our CTO, you will build our product. Our tech stack right now is very TypeScript based. We use SvelteKit for the frontend and Elysia for the backend.
- You will help make sure we’re not creating a spaghetti codebase. Not accumulating tech debt is good.
- You will take part in figuring out how to solve our customers’ problems. This means we’ll ask for your input when designing a solution and take your opinion into account.
- It’s a startup so there’s a lot of hats to go around. On Monday, we might work together to figure out a solution to a problem our customer has mentioned. On Tuesday, we might build that solution out. On Wednesday, we might ship that solution & instrument it with analytics to make sure it makes the impact it has. There’s a lot to do, so it’s hard to put it all in bullet points.
RequirementsLittle preface, when we say experience below, we don’t just mean professional experience. Any long-term commitment to open source contributions in the mentioned area or even to a personal project counts for us.
- We do not care if you have a degree in Computer Science or any similar discipline. As long as you can ship things, we want to meet you. Whether you can show you know your way around coding through your open source contributions, through your personal projects on your GitHub, or something else; you will not be at a disadvantage just because you didn’t go to a university.
- SvelteKit experience is a massive advantage. Being able to hit the ground running with our web framework of choice would be a big deal. Same applies for Elysia (our backend framework).
- Any full-stack experience is very relevant. You will own end-to-end building & shipping for big areas of the product. Knowing how to build full-stack software will help you excel at that.
- Knowing what to do in the post-ship phase will make you stand out a lot. Building stuff is very important, but knowing how to ensure a solution to a problem is working using analytics, being able to optimise resource usage using backend telemetry, and other stuff in that ballpark is really important to us.
- Being great at delivering (the D in CI/CD) will make you stand out. We work in a monorepo because that’s the fastest for us and that means a slightly more complicated setup. If you know how to work around that, it would help us a lot.
- We want you to be a creative. If you’ve ever been a Design Engineer, freelanced making nice landing pages for people, or done anything that indicates you’re a creative (yes, SoundCloud rap counts), we’d love to know.
- You need to be tax resident in Ireland. While we really don’t mind you working from anywhere in the world (as long as we can meet at a time where it isn’t the evening for either of us, so please be mindful of timezones), we can’t deal with non-irish tax residencies just yet.
Benefits
- 5 weeks of paid annual leave
- Unlimited paid sick leave (but if you’ll be gone longer than a week, please bring a medical cert. this is obviously within reason, we just don’t want to force you to come into work while you’re sick)
- Equity from our employee option pool
- The job ad says hybrid because we want to be honest, but we’ll ask you to come into the office extremely rarely (even saying once a month is being very generous). We want you to work where you’re comfortable, so while we can make you working from the office happen, if you prefer working from home that’s okay.
What you can expect from our hiring process:
- We’ll give you a quick screening call if we like your CV. Just a quick intro.
- If we’re happy with the screening call, we’ll schedule a technical interview, please don’t do LeetCode before it, we won’t be doing LeetCode style questions during the interview. This will be with our CTO.
- If we’re happy with the technical interview, we’ll schedule the last interview. This will be kind of a vibe check with our CEO & CTO.
After each of these steps, we’ll get back to you with an answer. If we decide not to schedule a technical interview, we’ll send you an e-mail to not keep you waiting. If either after the technical interview or team vibe check we decide to not go with you, we’ll do our best to make that e-mail include some feedback for you. Our target is not ghosting anyone, and providing helpful feedback when possible.If all of this sounds good to you, we’d love to meet you! We’re very excited to get you on board.FInal note:There’s an optional cover letter field enabled. Please don’t actually upload a cover letter. We left it open in case there’s something you think we should see. Whether it’s a list of your projects, a PDF about the cool stuff you’re doing in your homelab, or something else; it’s basically a non-CV free-for-all.Reintersect
Expected salary
€30000 per year
Location
Dublin
Job date
Wed, 21 May 2025 22:31:17 GMT
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