Founding Engineer
San Francisco, CAFull-time$300–375K/yrSeen 1 day agoStill listed 1 day ago
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Job overview
Taiga is building autonomous medical billing, and its Founding Engineer will be one of the company’s first engineers. The role builds the platform its agents run on, including integrations with outside systems that billing depends on, and helps hire future engineers. The team uses TypeScript and Postgres and seeks someone who has built with LLMs and prefers shipping over waiting for a specification.
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You will be one of our first engineers. You will build the platform our agents run on, including the integrations with outside systems that billing depends on, and you will help hire the engineers who come after you. You have 5+ years shipping production software and have owned systems end to end. We write TypeScript on Postgres. You have built with LLMs, and you would rather ship than wait for a spec. On-site in San Francisco. $300K to $375K base, 1% to 2% equity. US-based candidates with existing US work authorization only; we do not sponsor visas. Taiga is building autonomous medical billing. We are a small team in San Francisco, backed by Y Combinator. Learn more at https://taigabilling.com/careers
How this job compares
Set against the 41,225 open Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$300–375K/yr
- California median$165–245K/yr7,655 salary ranges
- US median$134–215K/yr32,917 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $338K, is 65% above the California median midpoint ($205K) — in the top quarter of Software Engineer salary ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 9,529 open Software Engineer jobs in California and 41,225 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (33,478 postings).
- Education
- 14,294 of the 41,225 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 3, 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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