Find Your Founding Engineer

​Hiring a founding engineer has gotten harder, not easier. Every open role now pulls in hundreds of AI-generated applications that all sound the same, and the engineers who've actually built things get buried under them. Founders spend weeks sorting noise. Good engineers send résumés into a void. This meetup skips both.

​We're bringing together a small group of funded founders who are hiring their first engineers right now, and engineers who want that kind of role — high ownership, small team, real stake in the outcome.

• ​Founders - who should come
  You've raised (pre-seed to Series A) and have an engineering role you'd fill this quarter. Any domain: developer tools, fintech, infrastructure, consumer, B2B SaaS, AI, hardware-adjacent — if you need someone who can own a codebase from day one, this room is for you.

• ​Engineers - who should come
  You've shipped things that are real: a product with users, an open-source project people use, a system at work you can walk someone through in detail. Backend, full-stack, mobile, infra, data, ML - all good.

​No panels, no pitches. Short intros from each founder on what they're building and who they need, then open conversation.

​Come ready to talk specifics: what you'd build, how you work, what you actually want from the next two years.