Founding Engineer, Software
San Francisco, CAFull-time$130–210K/yrSeen todayStill listed today
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Fort is building a screenless wearable and companion app for strength training. The founding software engineer will own development across the stack, with a strong backend focus, and work directly with the founders. The role centers on reliable data movement between wearable, phone, and server, responsive product experiences, mobile features, and infrastructure supporting data analysis and machine learning.
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Fort is building a screenless wearable and companion app designed for strength training, helping people understand their training, movement, and health over time. We’re looking for a founding software engineer to own development across our stack, with a strong backend focus. Your first priorities will be making data move reliably and quickly between wearable, phone, and server, and making the product feel responsive in everyday use. You’ll build APIs, improve synchronization and data infrastructure, debug performance across system boundaries, and ship mobile features. You’ll also support data analysis and the infrastructure behind our machine learning work. You should have experience shipping and operating software at a startup, strong backend fundamentals, and the ability to follow a problem wherever it leads. You’re comfortable turning an ambiguous problem into a working solution, making practical tradeoffs, and working hard to see it through. As an early engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders and have substantial ownership of what we build and how it works.Fort is building a screenless wearable and companion app designed for strength training, helping people understand their training, movement, and health over time.
We’re looking for a founding software engineer to own development across our stack, with a strong backend focus. Your first priorities will be making data move reliably and quickly between wearable, phone, and server, and making the product feel responsive in everyday use.
You’ll build APIs, improve synchronization and data infrastructure, debug performance across system boundaries, and ship mobile features. You’ll also support data analysis and the infrastructure behind our machine learning work.
You should have experience shipping and operating software at a startup, strong backend fundamentals, and the ability to follow a problem wherever it leads. You’re comfortable turning an ambiguous problem into a working solution, making practical tradeoffs, and working hard to see it through. As an early engineer, you’ll work directly with the founders and have substantial ownership of what we build and how it works.
How this job compares
Set against the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$130–210K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,675 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,980 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $170K, is 17% below the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the lowest quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,550 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,311 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for no prior experience — less than three in four Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 33,552 postings).
- Education
- 14,305 of the 41,311 open Software Engineer jobs (35%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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