Founding Product Engineer; Systems & UX

What We’re Building

Candid is building the software that industrial engineers use to run and review pre-construction workflows for compute and energy infrastructure.

These tools support decisions that cost millions of dollars, so they need to be fast, inspectable, and safe to use in production.

• Build high-quality React/Type Script interfaces for viewing, editing, and overriding AI-generated workflows.

• Design backend systems that support secure execution, stateful workflows, and large-scale document ingestion.

• Build feedback loops that turn user interactions into structured signals for improving the AI.

• Own features end-to-end across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.

• React, Type Script, Tailwind, Next.js

• Python (FastAPI), Postgres/Supabase, Redis

• AWS, Docker, CI/CD

• Opinionated about UX, interaction design, and system boundaries

• Keeps components modular and APIs clean

• Cringes at clunky UIs or inefficient backend queries

• Has good intuition for how humans should interact with complex systems

• Cares about building tools that feel polished, calm, and serious

• Built complex, interactive web products (editors, internal tools, canvases)

• Early or founding engineer at a YC-backed company

• Experience shipping production software used by technical users

• Technical founder at a VC-backed startup