The brief
Why this role exists
Most products treat a professional network as a list. Introd treats it as a living system of identity, history, evidence, context, permission, and possibility.
This person will own the technical path from source connection to a trusted introduction. The job crosses data infrastructure, graph systems, backend architecture, product engineering, reliability, and user experience.
This is the highest-priority founding hire.
The work
What this person will own
- Network ingestion across supported sources
- Identity resolution and duplicate handling
- Canonical Postgres relationship data
- Versioned Neo4j graph projection
- Graph readiness and recoverability
- Relationship evidence, provenance, freshness, and confidence
- Multi-hop path discovery and ranking foundations
- Connector approval and introduction workflows
- Background processing, observability, testing, and production reliability
- Critical user-facing experiences when the problem crosses the stack
- Technical standards for a company where speed and trust must coexist
Relevant paths
Who may recognize themselves
- Former technical founder
- Founding engineer
- Principal or staff product engineer
- Backend or full-stack engineer with strong graph and data instincts
- Builder who has operated production systems, not only prototypes
Show the work
Candidate evidence
Tell us about one system you built where the difficult problem was establishing what was true underneath the interface.
No implied promise
The path from here
This person can grow into broader engineering leadership as Introd grows, but this opportunity does not promise a CTO, VP Engineering, officer, or board title.
Contribution and ownership
Ownership should follow contribution.
Introd is being built by people who think and act like owners. Depending on the opportunity, commitment, applicable law, and formal approval, compensation may include stock options subject to the company’s equity plan, vesting terms, exercise conditions, and required corporate approvals.
A founding title describes the stage and level of contribution. It does not by itself create founder, officer, director, shareholder, or governance status.
How we work
How we work when the map is incomplete
Introd is still early enough that important decisions will not arrive with perfect evidence or detailed instructions. We expect people to ask good questions, form a point of view, make the work visible, and move.
We care about speed, but not the kind created by leaving a mess for someone else. We care about ambition, but not performance. We tell one another the truth, stay close to users, document consequential decisions, and protect the trust people place in the product.
You will have real ownership here. That means room to shape the work and responsibility for what happens after it ships.
A wider field of view
Bring the path that brought you here
The strongest teams are built by people with different histories, perspectives, and ways of seeing a problem. Introd considers qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
If the work sounds like yours but your background does not match every conventional pattern, we still want to hear from you.