Founding Engineer

Empathix · auckland, auckland, New-Zealand

Location
auckland
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
July 01, 2026

Job Description

This is our first dedicated engineering hire.

You’ll own the technical foundation of Drumbeat as a hands‑on individual contributor, partnering closely with the CPO on product and shipping the systems that sit at the core of what we do.

You’ll architect and build agentic systems in production, make the foundational calls on infrastructure and data, and work directly with customers to ground every decision in real usage. The technical bar at Drumbeat will be the bar you set.

What you’ll do

Design, build, ship and iterate the Drumbeat platform end‑to‑end, frontend, backend, infrastructure, data.

Architect production‑grade agentic systems: orchestration, tool use, memory, evals, observability, guardrails, reliable failure handling.

Help semi‑technical peers ship production‑quality code by creating strong guard rails and putting the power of agentic orchestration into use.

Make the foundational calls on architecture, infrastruc...

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