Mantel · 1 day ago
Founding Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$180K/yr - $220K/yr
5+ years expMantel is a fast-growing startup building AI agents to transform the home services industry. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to lead technical decisions, build AI-powered features, and establish an engineering culture, while working closely with the founders and a small team.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Build and ship AI-powered features. Recent examples: we just shipped an AI agent that personalizes proposals based on homeowner interests. Next up: an AI agent that’s personalized to each salesperson’s tone and style and helps them build proposals from scratch and respond to customers on their behalf. You'll also build new AI-powered shopping experiences for homeowners—like an agent that walks them through choosing between heat pump options based on their home specs and budget
Help establish the engineering culture that will define Mantel for years. We already use AI extensively in our development process (we ship faster than teams 3x our size), but we expect you to push us to new heights as AI tools evolve weekly
Talk to customers in the field - contractors and homeowners. The best product decisions come from understanding the problem firsthand. You'll ride along on sales calls and watch people use your code
Ship meaningful code every day. We move fast. You'll own projects end-to-end from design to deployment
Scale backend services (Python/Django) as we grow. If you have frontend skills, you'll ship web products too
Qualification
Required
5+ years building and scaling production systems
Technical leadership experience - you've mentored engineers or led technical projects
Extremely strong technical skills - we need someone we can trust to own the entire codebase
Python proficiency and backend chops
Preferred
hands-on AI/LLM experience
Django/PostgreSQL
AWS
full-stack capabilities
startup experience
Benefits
Equity: Part of ~10% pool across our first 10 employees (1%+ for this role)
Growth: This role is your launchpad. Learn how to build a category-defining company, then use those skills to lead engineering at Mantel or build your own startup someday
Culture: Lunch and dinner at the office, monthly team night-outs, and a team that genuinely enjoys working together
Health, dental, and vision insurance
PTO: As an owner, take what you need
Company
Mantel
Mantel is on a mission to unleash sellers to close more. Our flagship product, SmartQuote, is a first-of-its-kind closing and communication tool.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase