AI Software Engineer - founding team

Neander is building the next-generation development environment for modern teams — a multiplayer, AI-native IDE where business and engineering teams build software together.

We believe software creation shouldn’t be a single-player activity. Today, ideas move from business → product → engineering through tickets and handoffs. We’re collapsing that gap.

Our platform helps teams think, spec, and build software collaboratively, translating business intent directly into production systems.

We’re a funded, early-stage team founded by former CTOs who have built and scaled large systems — bringing deep, first-hand insight into how modern software is actually built.

What You’ll Work On
Build agentic workflows that translate business intent into technical execution
Design systems where multiple users + AI agents collaborate in real-time
Work on AI-assisted architecture, planning, and code generation systems
Develop core primitives for a collaborative, multiplayer IDE
Shape how non-technical users interact with and build production software

What We’re Looking For
Strong engineering fundamentals
Experience with LLMs / AI systems
Ability to build end-to-end systems
Comfort with ambiguity and first-principles thinking
High ownership and speed
Bonus:
Devtools / IDE experience
Real-time collaboration systems
Startup or product-building experience

Before you apply
This is not a typical job.

We will not win you over with pedigree, logos, or borrowed credibility.
And we are not here to be won over either.

Show us what you’ve built — the single piece of work that defines you.
Now, look at it closely.
Is it the best you’re capable of — or just the best you’ve allowed yourself to do?

Working with us will be brutally hard.
There will be guarantees. In fact most people won’t make it.

But if there’s something rare in you — a refusal to accept ordinary — we’ll see it. And we’ll reach out.

And if this works…
You won’t just have a job. You’ll have built your life’s best work,
the thing you’ll measure the rest of your life against.
with people who care as much as you do.