Founding Engineer

Build the future of creative production.

We’re building Bloom — a visual workspace for creative teams.

We’re looking for a Founding Engineer who is cracked and can ship fast.

What You’ll Do

• Build on Bloom’s existing foundation, taking it from current beta to a market-ready MVP and beyond
• Own the stack across backend, frontend, and integrations (AI, cloud infrastructure, creative tooling)
• Evolve and optimize backend systems to support real-time, media-heavy collaboration at scale
• Work directly with the founders to translate product direction into working, high-quality software
• Ship new features and improvements for real creative teams already using Bloom
• Refine and expand the technical foundation and system architecture to enable long-term growth
• Collaborate closely with product and design, with a brand-obsessed and detail-driven mindset

Tech Overview

You will help shape the stack, but here is our current direction:

• Frontend: React, Next.JS, TypeScript (with drag-and-drop and live editing in mind)
• Backend: Node.JS
• Infra: S3, CI/CD, Docker, PostgreSQL
• AI: OpenAI, ClaudeCode, Generative AI and other emerging APIs
• Workflow: GitHub, Notion, Figma, with a tight founder–engineer loop

We’re especially interested in candidates with experience in:

• Real-time collaboration (e.g. Figma-style multiplayer functionality)
• Building AI-enhanced UX (autocomplete, summaries, image/text generation)
• Architecting for speed — short feedback loops are everything
• Translating ambiguous user problems into clean, scalable systems

What We’re Looking For

• You’ve shipped real products, ideally in creative tooling, AI, or productivity software
• You write clean, reliable, scalable code — fast
• You’re full stack and independent: frontend, backend, infra, AI integrations — you can do it all
• You’ve worked in early-stage environments or solo — you know how to find answers
• You care about aesthetics, UX, and the little details
• You’re hungry. You want to be part of a core team building something big from the ground up
• You’re based in NYC or ready to relocate — we work best in person
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping software — but we care more about what you’ve built than where or how long

Culture & Fit

• Fast pace, high standards, and deep ownership
• Taste and polish are core to our process
• You will work alongside founders who live and breathe our product, creative team workflows and creative production
• Expect long hours, meaningful work, and real camaraderie

Apply

Email us at letsbuild@bloom.site with a short note, links to anything you’ve built or shipped, and why you’re interested.