Founding Engineer at LockStep

Join LockStep as a Founding Engineer to bridge the gap between bespoke consulting and static software. You will architect a delivery system that scales AI implementations across entire private equity portfolios. By automating complex workflows and building reusable infrastructure, you’ll directly impact EBITDA for mid-sized enterprises while defining the technical foundation of the company.

• Architect and implement the core delivery system, focusing on reusable infrastructure, workflow patterns, and deployment tooling.
• Balance technical leadership with hands-on delivery, spending 40% of your time working directly with clients to solve messy, real-world operational challenges.
• Scale the engineering team and create internal knowledge systems that turn project experience into shared, automated capabilities.

• Proven full-stack engineer who has shipped production-grade AI systems, moving beyond simple prototypes to resilient, real-world applications.
• Exceptional ability to identify reusable patterns within fragmented data and complex workflows to build scalable software solutions.
• Practical, curious, and ambitious leader ready to own technical strategy and build the foundation of a high-growth AI delivery platform.

• Become a technical founder of a business with a proven market and a full customer pipeline through the end of 2026.
• Move beyond “chatbot” AI into building mission-critical systems that fundamentally redesign how mid-sized, PE-backed businesses operate.
• Secure meaningful equity and genuine ownership of the technical direction while building a compounding delivery engine from day one.