Founding Engineer

As a founding engineer, you’ll take end-to-end ownership on core features from product requirements to shipping to end users. This role involves defining the future of CreativeMode, engaging with the growing user base, and working directly with the founders and early team.

Must Have

• Love to ship fast and make an impact with a high bar for quality.
• Move from ideation to solution in the hands of users as quickly as possible.
• Possess high agency and balance technical obsession with pragmatism.
• Have 1 to 5 years of experience building real-world applications.
• Exceptional at Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Ability to build own tools and use tools like Cursor to maximize velocity.
• Improve systems to help the entire team move faster.
• Willingness to work in-person in San Francisco.

Good to Have

• Prior experience founding a company or building high-growth, community-driven products.
• Understanding of video games and desire to build for the community.
• Keep up with the latest developments in AI/LLMs.

About the role

As a founding engineer, you’ll take end-to-end ownership on core features from product requirements to shipping to end users. That means you’ll have a key role in defining the future of CreativeMode and keep in touch with our growing user base. You’ll work directly with the founders and early team.

You’d be a great fit if you:

• Philosophy: You love to ship fast and make an impact. You have a high bar for quality and love moving from ideation to solution in the hands of our users as quickly as possible. We want someone with high agency and a balance between technical obsession and pragmatism.
• Experience: You have 1 to 5 years of experience building real world applications
• Language: You’re exceptional at Python, Go, TypeScript or similar
• Tools: Build your own tools as needed and love to use tools like Cursor to maximize your velocity. You improve systems along the way to help the entire team move faster and faster.
• Culture: We’re In-person in SF. We have a beautiful office in Chinatown that we share with several other YC/MIT startups. You’ll be in one of the most focused and talent dense offices in the city.

Bonus points if you:

• Have prior experience founding a company or building high-growth, community-driven products or experiences
• You understand video games and want to build something amazing for the community
• Keep up with the latest developments in AI/LLMs

We’re building a category-defining product from the ground up. That isn’t easy and it isn’t for everyone. You need to be willing to work on hard, unsolved problems and put in the hours. You’ll be rewarded with massive upside and hard-earned experience. Only apply if you know that’s a fit.

About the interview

• 30 min intro call with CEO
• 30 min coding exercise
• Take home exercise
• In-person on-site interview
• Offer

About CreativeMode

CreativeMode enables players to create mods for their favorite video games without coding, starting with Minecraft.

Video games have evolved from fixed, finished products into living worlds shaped by players, developers, and pop culture. We’re taking that evolution to its next stage by giving every player the power of a game studio at their fingertips.

In just our first three months, we built the most powerful no-code modding platform ever for Minecraft and created a double digit percentage of all mods ever released. We're building the flagship product in an entirely new category of gaming tools. And Minecraft is only the beginning.