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Posted May 2026. This role may already be filled. Kept as a salary reference point.

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Founding Engineer

BrightCore
[F] zen
€58,000 - €65,000 ≈ $65k
BrightCore | Founding Engineer | Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid, 2 days/wk) | Full-time | €58–65k + 1.0–1.5% equity

We're a 3-cofounder gym/fitness SaaS , closing a pre-seed. Hiring our first engineer to own: - NestJS/Postgres backend (~70%) - Coral, our WhatsApp AI agent for member retention (~30%)

You'd be our first hire. Real ownership, real equity, no committees. Stack: NestJS, Prisma, Postgres, Next.js, Anthropic API, Meta WhatsApp Cloud API.

Looking for: 3–5 yrs backend, comfortable shipping solo, genuine curiosity about LLMs / retention modelling. ML hobbyist > ML PhD for this role.

Email: Frankie@brightcore.ie ... short note + GitHub or one thing you've shipped.

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