<h1>Founding Engineer (US)</h1>Build the AI platform that's rewriting a $50B industrySalary range - $180-220k USD + Equity + Benefits <h2>About Haast</h2>We're building one of the first agentic systems for enterprise legal and compliance teams that actually automates their manual work. End-to-end. Delivering 80% faster compliance reviews and 4x productivity gains.We recently closed a $12M USD Series A (Peak XV Partners, DST Global, Airtree) and are growing fast in the US; building the infrastructure that will completely re-define how enterprises think about compliance.Think Canva for design. Atlassian for projects. Haast for compliance. <h2>The Problem</h2>Compliance is a $50B global challenge. Enterprise legal and compliance teams spend a significant amount of time manually reviewing documents against policy, spotting regulatory risk, and signing off on content before go-to-market. It's painful and it's mission-critical.We're building the infrastructure that makes this manageable at scale. You'll be working on systems that directly reduce risk and unlock productivity for some of the world's largest organisations. <h2>The Role</h2>As our first US based Engineer; you'll be the technical bridge between our product vision and our customers' reality. You're a full-stack engineer who thrives at the intersection of innovation and execution, building our platform while staying connected to the teams actually using it.You'll split your time between heads-down building (shipping code that matters) and being engaged with customers, understanding their pain points firsthand, iterating on features in real-time, and using that feedback to shape our product direction. You'll own end-to-end technical decisions: designing systems, shipping to production, and iterating based on direct customer interaction.This is high-autonomy work. You'll collaborate directly with our founding team, move at startup velocity, and have genuine influence over both our architecture and product roadmap.<h2>What You'll Own</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Design, architect, and ship full-stack features that directly solve our customers compliance challenges</li><li>Own the technical relationship with key customers; implementing solutions, gathering requirements, and translating feedback into product improvements</li><li>Build scalable services and APIs that power our LLM compliance platform while keeping the customer experience front and center</li><li>Make high-impact technical decisions quickly, knowing that you'll be accountable to both our engineering standards and our customers</li><li>Challenge assumptions on "why" and "how", you'll directly influence what we build and how we build it</li><li>Shape our product roadmap and engineering practices as we scale from Series A to market leadership</li></ul><h2>Who We're Looking For</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>You've built full-stack systems at meaningful scale; you're equally comfortable architecting backend services and shipping frontend code that customers interact with daily</li><li>You're deep on one or more of: Go, Node.js/TypeScript, or Python, and you're fluent enough across the stack to own features end-to-end</li><li>You understand APIs, distributed systems, and the tradeoffs between speed and reliability in production environments</li><li>You genuinely enjoy working with customers; you're not just shipping features, you want to understand the human problem you're solving</li><li>You've shipped in fast-moving environments and understand what it takes to move quickly without breaking things</li><li>You're curious about how LLMs work and excited about building practical applications on top of them, not just the theory</li></ul><h2>Why Join Haast</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Competitive benefits: PTO, Health, Dental, Vision, 401k </li><li>Real impact, day one: Your code runs inside the workflows of major global enterprises immediately. You're solving mission-critical compliance problems that directly reduce risk and unlock productivity. </li><li>Forward-deployed influence: You'll spend time with customers, understanding their pain points and having direct input into product decisions. Your customer insights will shape our roadmap.</li><li>Equity upside: We're building a generational company in a $50B market. You'll own a meaningful stake in that value creation and be part of the defines how Haast scales. We believe in sharing success with the people who build it.</li><li>Exceptional learning velocity: You'll learn more about scaling systems, working with customers, building products, and navigating the demands of a fast-growing startup in 12 months here than most roles offer in three years.</li><li>Engineering-driven culture: No red tape. We hire smart people and get out of their way. Your voice matters in how we build.</li><li>Flexibility and community: Fully remote across the US or Canada. </li></ul><h2>How to Apply</h2>We're looking for people who've shipped things they're proud of and want to work on a problem that genuinely matters.Apply with:<ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li>Your CV</li><li>A brief note on this question: Tell us about a time you worked with customers to ship something they actually needed. What did it take to achieve the outcome? </li></ol>No closing date. We review applications on a rolling basis. At Haast, we believe bold ideas come from diverse perspectives. We're committed to building a team that reflects the world we work in. Even if you don't tick every box, we'd love to hear from you. #LI-Remote Please mention the word **GREAT** and tag RMjYwNDoyZGMwOjEwMToyMDA6OjI4NTA= when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjYwNDoyZGMwOjEwMToyMDA6OjI4NTA=). This is a beta feature to avoid spam applicants. 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