Founding Engineer

Temper (ex Unnbound) is looking for our first engineering hire to own core systems end-to-end and help set the patterns that will shape the team as we scale. You’ll work closely with the founders to ship production-ready systems for an agentic integration platform used by paying enterprise customers.

What youll do

• Own core systems end-to-end: agent platform, infrastructure, and the integrations runtime.
• Set the engineering patterns that every future hire will build on.
• Work directly with the founders, providing opinion and technical leadership.
• Ship to production constantly, delivering reliable, observable systems.

What Temper (ex Unnbound) is looking for

• 3+ years of software engineering experience in fast-paced environments (startup experience preferred).
• Proven ability to build something 0 to 1, in early-stage startups or serious side projects.
• Proficiency in TypeScript and React for frontend; Node.js for backend.
• Experience integrating or building workflows around large language models (LLMs) and agent-based platforms.
• Experience with AWS and PostgreSQL for cloud and data storage.
• Experience owning end-to-end feature development across frontend, backend, and infra with measurable customer impact.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, tracing, and reliable retry/queuing patterns in distributed systems.