Founding Engineer (Early Employee #1–3)

About Introd
Introd is building the relationship operating system for founders and executives — a graph-intelligent network that maps your LinkedIn, calendar, and email to show who can get you in.
We’re not building another CRM. We’re building network science for trust.

Backed by the team behind Elloe AI – the Immune System for AI, Introd is where relational data, graph AI, and community mechanics converge.

Why Join Now

• We’ve already shipped a production-hardened alpha, tested with 100+ early users.
• Our GTM strategy combines Substack, social virality, and warm-intro loops.
• You’ll own the core architecture that makes Introd defensible — graph infra, matching algorithms, and growth automation.
• You’ll be working directly with Owen Sakawa (CEO of Elloe AI) — Forbes AI Council, MIT AI Infra speaker — and a small founding team that builds like SpaceX engineers.

What You’ll Build
You’ll take the platform from 90 % production-ready → public beta → scale.

Core Systems

• Graph network engine (Neo4j + vector embeddings)
• Multi-tenant FastAPI backend with LLM guardrails
• OAuth data ingestion (LinkedIn, Gmail, Calendar)
• Intro request + routing logic (2-hop/3-hop pathfinder)
• Referral & invite system for viral growth
• AI-assisted draft intros (LLM + prompt safety layer)
• Caching, metrics, and auto-scaling infra (AWS or DigitalOcean)

Bonus
Help architect an open API for warm-intro graph integrations
Contribute to “Introverse” — Introd’s founder-community SDK

You Might Be a Fit If You…
Love zero-to-one engineering — small team, massive leverage.
Have shipped production-grade code in Python, Node, or TypeScript.
Understand network effects, graph databases, or LLM safety systems.
Care about clean architecture, type safety, and measurable reliability.
Thrive in autonomy: design, ship, iterate, repeat.

Outcomes in 90 Days
Deploy public beta (500–1 000 early users)
Reduce latency > 40 % via caching + async jobs
Ship OAuth integrations (LinkedIn, Gmail, Calendar)
Build metrics dashboards for usage + network density
Establish early monitoring + CI/CD automation

What You Get

• Founding-level equity — you’re not an employee; you’re a co-builder.
• Chance to architect the first trust-graph network on the internet.
• Collaborate directly with the Elloe AI engineering core.
• Option to lead engineering or CTO track post-seed.
• The freedom to build like Tesla engineers — no MVP shortcuts, production-ready only.

How to Apply
Include a short note:“If you had to redesign LinkedIn to work only through trust graphs, what would you build first?”