Overview of Weave and the Founding Product Engineer role:

• Weave (YC W25) is building a platform to understand and improve how engineering teams work, using AI to provide accurate, actionable insights on productivity, impact, and collaboration.
• The company is trusted by 200+ customers including Robinhood, Rho, PostHog, and Browserbase.
• They have achieved consistent double-digit month-over-month revenue growth since May.
• Raised a $4.2M seed round backed by Moonfire, Burst Capital, and Y Combinator (W25).
• Hiring a Founding Product Engineer to define the product and technical foundation.
• Opportunity to shape how millions of engineers and leaders understand engineering work.

What Weave is building:

• Rethinking engineering output from first principles.
• Using AI to understand how engineers actually work (beyond just what they ship).
• Surfacing meaningful insights about productivity, quality, collaboration, and impact.
• Helping teams improve outcomes without vanity metrics or surveillance.
• Goal: optimize for better engineering, not just more output.

Team:

• Work directly with Andrew (CTO), a founding engineer at Causal and MIT alum.
• Work with Adam (CEO), experienced sales executive with multiple high-growth startups.
• Small, intense, highly collaborative team with real ownership from day one.

Must haves for candidates:

• Formidable engineer who perseveres to accomplish goals.
• Pragmatic approach in a startup environment.
• Commitment to becoming a great engineer.
• Empathy for users and understanding their needs.
• Passion for helping software engineering teams excel.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Grit and willingness to take on hard challenges.

Nice to haves:

• Experience with React + TypeScript frontend, Go backend, Python for ML.
• Prior thinking about engineering productivity improvements.
• Passable design sensibilities.

Role responsibilities:

• Engage with customers to understand pain points and requests.
• Design, plan, build backend/frontend features.
• Provision infrastructure for new features.
• Release features and gather feedback.
• Quickly fix bugs with both short-term hacks and long-term solutions.

Additional details:

• Full-time onsite role at Weave HQ in San Francisco (5 days/week).
• Compensation: $150K – $200K plus 0.1% – 0.2% equity.
• Benefits: health/vision/dental insurance covered; free meals/snacks; yearly team offsite; $500 yearly learning stipend; fast-moving team environment.

Interview process:

1. 15-minute intro call
2. Take-home assessment
3. Two one-hour technical interviews with CTO
4. 3–5 day paid work trial