Founding Frontend Software Engineer

Tl;dr we’re hiring a strong frontend engineer to help us build and scale Agave’s product suite. You’ll ship new user-facing products, expand and improve existing workflows, and refactor our frontend as the platform grows. This is a unique opportunity to own meaningful product surface area, work closely with customers and the rest of the engineering team, and help shape the frontend foundations of a fast-growing startup.

What is Agave? Agave is one of the fastest-growing companies you’ve never heard of, until now. We’re the modern data infrastructure platform for construction, the world’s third-largest industry and one of its most technologically underserved.

Every day, contractors run into the same problem: their business-critical systems don’t talk to each other. These systems, for accounting, project management, estimating, payroll, and field operations each hold essential data — from job costs and invoices to budgets and schedules, and are the backbone of how contractors run their business, make decisions, and keep projects moving.

When these systems and data live in silos, the result is errors, delays, double-entry, and wasted money. Teams spend countless hours reconciling spreadsheets, chasing down missing information, and trying to stitch together a reliable view of their projects and finances.

Agave solves this by being the connective tissue across the industry’s most important tools. We integrate and synchronize data across systems so that contractors always have accurate, up-to-date information in real time. That shared data layer unlocks the next step: workflow automations that replace spreadsheets, emails, and one-off processes with reliable, system-driven execution across finance and operations — enabling teams to work faster, make better decisions, and avoid costly mistakes.

In just a few years, we’ve hit milestones most startups never reach: profitable for over 2 years, millions in recurring revenue with multi-year contracts, and backed by Accel, YC, and top executives from Procore, Autodesk, and PlanGrid. We’ve built something people actually need, in a market most of Silicon Valley ignores — which is exactly why we’re winning. The only thing slowing us down is hiring. Our team is small, scrappy, and high-caliber, and we’re looking for the next wave of builders who will help take Agave from breakout startup to category-defining company.

Requirements

• Frontend leaning/full-stack engineer, ideally with 3+ years experience
• Self-motivated, high ownership, low ego; desire to work on a fast-paced, intense, fun team. Excited to be our next hire; passion for building a world-class engineering culture.
• Pumped to work in-person with us in SF 5 days/week.
• No need to have: prior experience with our tech stack

Why are we hiring for this role?

• We’re actively expanding Agave’s product surface area, with multiple new products launching this year (AP Automation, Vendor Management, and more). Our current frontend bandwidth is a constraint on how quickly we can ship, iterate, and improve these experiences.
• As customer usage grows, we need to move faster on improving usability, performance, and polish across existing products. Without additional frontend ownership, product velocity and quality become bottlenecks.
• By hiring for this role, we unlock our ability to ship new product experiences in parallel, reduce frontend technical debt, and iterate more quickly based on real customer feedback—directly supporting our growth and product goals this year.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship frontend experiences for new products across Agave’s platform, including AP Automation, Vendor Management, and additional products launching throughout the year
• Iterate quickly based on customer feedback, balancing speed with long-term code quality
• Collaborate closely with backend engineers and product managers to translate real-world customer workflows into thoughtful UI
• Establish and evolve frontend patterns, components, and best practices as the product surface area scales
• Expand on the existing testing suite, reducing regressions and defects while maintaining development velocity
• Own the end-to-end implementation of user-facing features, from early product concepts through production-ready interfaces
• Refactor and modernize existing frontend code to improve performance, maintainability, and developer velocity

Interesting technical challenges?

• Our app is heavily data-intensive and used by 1000+ busy professionals (CFOs and accountants) every week. These customers value usability, simplicity, and powerful features, and expect a reliable, fast, and keyboard-friendly interface.
• Our products build on top of each other and share a significant amount of logic; this allows us to move fast and launch new products quickly. But this poses maintainability and scalability challenges. Our ideal candidate is able to establish best practices and patterns that set us up for success for the next N products
• Our products are heavy on business logic — today, most of this logic lives in the backend. But we’d like to bring more of that to the front-end for a smoother user interaction. We’re not a simple CRUD app; we deal with complicated business logic and financial documents. Building a seamless interface between the two parts of the stack is a big challenge.
• We serve some of the largest construction companies in North America, and these customers have massive amounts of data. Our ideal candidate is able to bring a step function improvement in performance to our largest customer base.

Must Have What we look for:

• 3+ YOE building user-facing web applications
• Experience at a SaaS company (ideally an early-stage startup)
• Aptitude or demonstrated skill in these areas:

• Product-minded frontend development: translating real user workflows into intuitive, high-quality UI
• Code quality & maintainability: writing readable, well-structured frontend code and refactoring when needed
• Systems thinking: understanding how frontend systems interact with backend APIs, data models, and application state
• Clear communication: working effectively with engineers, product, and design to align on scope, tradeoffs, and timelines

Tech stack?

• TypeScript, React, MobX

Benefits

• Healthcare: we cover 90% of your healthcare costs with several plan options.
• 401k: we match 100% of your contributions, up to 4% of annual salary.
• Performance Bonuses: we offer annual performance bonuses when we hit company growth goals, which are a % of your base salary. These are large, meaningful rewards that scale with the amount we grow in a particular year.
• Relocation: sizable relocation bonus for folks currently located outside of the Bay Area, and a bonus for anyone (even within the Bay Area) who moves within a 15-minute walk of our office.
• Gym: on-site gym with Peloton, squat rack, Tempo, Yoga setup, and more.
• Visa: we sponsor Visas (H1B, TN, etc.) for candidates who are a good fit!
• Commuter benefits: employees can make pre-tax contributions toward commuting costs, and we’ll cover the full cost of a Muni pass for those using public transit.

Our Office

• We've built Agave in-person since day 1, and will maintain an in-person culture in San Francisco going forward for candidates in the Bay Area. We also will provide a significant relocation bonus for candidates who want to move to the Bay Area.
• Our office is at 101 New Montgomery Street, San Francisco, right near Salesforce Park, coffee shops & restaurants, and a bustling downtown. We believe building in-person is a huge strategic advantage, and we hope you’ll join us.