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Candid | Founding Engineer | Cambridge/Boston | Onsite/Hybrid

About the Role

We're building a photo-sharing app that uses CV to automate the annoying parts of sharing photos with friends.

Stack: FastAPI, Postgres, Supabase, AWS. We have a mobile app in progress and an ML pipeline—need someone to own the backend, wire it all together, and ship.

This is a founding engineer role. You'd work directly with the CEO and our mobile engineer. High ownership, fast pace, significant equity.

Requirements

Looking for someone who's:

  • Done real backend work (Python, FastAPI, whatever)
  • Deployed ML/CV to prod, not just notebooks
  • Knows their way around embeddings and similarity search
  • Cares about privacy/security (we're handling sensitive data)
  • Has shipped something real, ideally end-to-end

Bonus

  • Mobile integrations experience
  • Experience as an early engineer

Location

Cambridge/Boston based. Prefer onsite but hybrid works if you can hit the ground running.

To Apply

nlm280@gmail.com | Subject: "Founding Engineer – Candid"

Drop your GitHub and a quick note about something you've built from scratch.

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