Paddle Wheel

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Paddlewheel is an AI coding agent that ships real software — it builds, previews and deploys, end to end. We're a small, self-funded team, at MVP stage, with developers using it every day.

Open roles · 15

  • Founding Engineer — Infrastructure0.25% – 0.75% equitySandboxes, previews and deployments. The part that has to not fall over.
  • Backend / Platform EngineerAPIs, queues and the data model. The spine everything else runs on.
  • Security EngineerSandbox isolation, secrets and tenant boundaries. Keep customer code safe.
  • AI Engineer — Agent / Coding Systems0.1% – 0.3% equityAgent coordination, context, tool use and generation pipelines.
  • AI Research Engineer — Post-Training0.1% – 0.3% equityRL, evals and fine-tuning. Make the agent better at finishing real work.
  • Product Engineer — WebNext.js and TypeScript, end to end. You own what people actually touch.
  • Growth EngineerOnboarding, funnels and experiments. Ship what moves the number.
  • Product ManagerOwn a surface end to end: what ships, in what order, and why.
  • Developer Experience — Social MediaBuild in public: demos, threads, docs. You are how developers meet us.
  • Developer Advocate — CommunityYouTube, docs, Discord and GitHub. Collect developer feedback and help people build things.
  • Solutions Marketer — B2BPositioning, case studies and pipeline. Take the product to teams.

Nothing here that fits? Write to us anyway — tell us what you'd want to build and send something you've shipped.

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