Staff Software Engineer

Zero-to-One Builder for an AI-First Venture Studio

What the Right Seat Actually Looks Like

Why This Is a Rare Zero-to-One Seat

What You’ll Actually Build and Shape

• Shaping products from the beginning. Helping define what should be built, what should wait, and what should be cut before time gets wasted.
• Building from zero and shipping fast. Taking ideas from early concept to prototype to real product in users’ hands, often in days, not months.
• Seeing your work in the wild immediately. You won’t work on tiny pieces of a giant system that may never reach production. What you build here ships, gets used, and teaches us something right away.
• Making foundational technical decisions. Choosing the right tools, architecture, and tradeoffs for the stage, instead of inheriting someone else’s stack by default.
• Working close to the truth. Learning directly from users, pressure-testing assumptions, and adjusting quickly when the signal changes.
• Building across the full product reality. Thinking not just about whether something works technically, but whether it is useful, usable, differentiated, and economically sound.
• Operating at a pace that keeps things fun. Small teams, minimal process, and the expectation that meaningful progress happens daily. If you love moving quickly, you’ll thrive here. If you prefer long cycles and layers of review, this will feel uncomfortable.
• Helping shape ventures, not just software. Contributing to the decisions that determine whether something becomes a feature, a product, or a company.

The Kind of Engineer We’re Looking For

• They have real zero-to-one evidence. They have built something from scratch far enough to make meaningful product, technical, and speed-versus-quality tradeoffs in the real world.
• They think like a product builder, not just an implementer. They care about what should be built, what users actually need, what should be simplified, and what is not worth building.
• They move well in ambiguity. They do not need every variable resolved before they can make progress. They know how to create clarity while building.
• They have strong technical judgment. They can make sound architectural and tooling decisions for the stage, without over-engineering or blindly defaulting to whatever is newest.
• They are voracious learners with sharp judgment about emerging technology. They stay close to the frontier (new AI capabilities, tools, interfaces, and product patterns), not to chase novelty, but to understand what creates real leverage. They know how to evaluate new technology quickly, apply it selectively, and use it where it makes the product sharper, the workflow stronger, or the venture more advantaged.
• They have taste. They care whether something is sharp, usable, coherent, and worth a user’s time, not just whether it technically functions.
• They can work as part of a real venture team. They communicate clearly, collaborate well, and can think across product, user, business, and technical realities without losing rigor.
• They want the real version of ownership. Not just more work or more surface area, but more authorship over what gets built and how it earns traction.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Meaningful equity in every venture the studio builds
• 8 weeks of PTO
• Excellent health, vision, and dental insurance, with 99% of employee premiums paid
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Life insurance
• Paid parental leave
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Monthly parking stipend
• Weekly team lunches
• Dog-friendly office
• High-trust, high-autonomy culture
• The chance to work on multiple high-impact ventures each year
• Your own private office, and collaborative workspaces in one of the coolest office buildings in Tulsa
  
  

Location and Work Style

How to Apply