Founding Engineer

Location: BengaluruMode: On-site (no hybrid), 6 days/weekStipend: 40-50 LPACompany Description SimpleGrid is the operations platform / ERP mid-market manufacturers actually run on. Job tracking, BOM costing, routing, and QC, live on the floor. It syncs to the accounting system they already use. No ledger migration.Most manufacturers run on fragmented tools, spreadsheets, and ERP systems too rigid to match how they actually work. SimpleGrid maps the floor as it is, then deploys in 7 to 21 days, not six months.Built on a schema-driven, event-sourced architecture. Every action is a recorded event, so the numbers are always provable.Role Description As a Founding Engineer at SimpleGrid, you will build the core of the platform. You will work directly with the founding team to turn how a factory actually runs into a working system: entities, states, transitions, and the engine underneath them.Day to day, you will design and ship features across the stack, build integrations that keep a client's ledger intact, debug and harden what already runs in production, and sit with manufacturers to understand where the work breaks. You will improve tooling, reliability, and performance as we scale into the US market.What you'll doOwn problems end to end: define success metrics, design the approach, ship, and iterate quicklySpend time with customers: understand pain, propose solutions, validate, and deploy improvements fastArchitect and implement core systems: services, data models, workflows, and platform primitivesBuild product surfaces: modern web experiences for review and collaborationTake systems to production: observability, operational maturity, performance, resilience, and scalingRaise the bar: set engineering standards, improve architecture over time, and help shape the teamWhat we're looking for5+ years professional software engineering experience (startup / high-ownership experience is a plus)"Let me do it" mindset: strong ownership, bias to action, fast learner, comfortable being wrong and rewritingStrong system design instincts and the ability to ship real products (not just poc/mvp)Comfort with ambiguity and rapidly evolving requirementsStrong communication, able to explain tradeoffs to founders and customersTECHNICAL SKILLS:Domain / ArchitectureRules engines (config-driven business logic)Engine primitives (reusable core abstractions, not one-off features)Schema-driven design (entities, aggregates, bounded contexts)Event-sourced systemsERP and accounting integrationsBackend-driven UI (JSON-defined screens, server owns rendering logic)Multi-tenant SaaS (RLS isolation, tenant provisioning)AI chatbotsBackendTypeScript, Node.js, FastifyPostgreSQL, Drizzle ORMZod (shared types across frontend and backend)AWS SQS and LambdaFrontendReact, ViteTanStack Router and QueryRadix UI, CSS ModulesReact Native and Expo (mobile)Cloud / InfraAWS (ECS, RDS, ALB, Cognito, S3)TerraformDockerGitHub ActionsHow to applyEmail us at hello@simplegrid.ai with your years of experience in the subject line. Include your resume, details of your previous experience, and anything else you would like us to know. Our team will reach out to you shortly.