Full-Stack Engineer, Formant
$110-130k
+ Equity
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Data platform for robotics companies
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Data platform for robotics companies
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$110-130k
+ Equity
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the leading cloud-based platform for managing fleets of heterogeneous robots.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who wants to become a strong product engineer by working across the stack on real production problems — from debugging issues to shipping improvements that prevent them from happening again
- We’re also looking for someone who is particularly excited about using AI tools to accelerate their work
- 0–3 years of professional software engineering experience
- (internships, co-ops, and substantial projects count)
- Pragmatic: you can differentiate between “ship the fix” and “refactor the world”
- Strong fundamentals in computer science and software design
- Comfortable using modern AI-assisted development tools (e.g., coding copilots, LLMs) to improve productivity and learning
- Comfortable working on “unsexy” problems (legacy code, tricky edge cases) to earn leverage and context
- Communicative and calm under pressure when production issues arise
- Curious, pragmatic, and eager to learn quickly
- Takes ownership and follows through on problems
- You can show your work: a portfolio (GitHub, shipped projects, demos, write-ups) that lets us see your drive, energy, and how you think through real problems
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an ambitious early-career full‑stack engineer to help make the Formant platform more reliable, usable, and powerful for customers
- You’ll work across our stack on real customer issues, core product development, and internal tooling, with a heavy focus on making our existing platform more reliable and easier to support
- You’ll collaborate closely with senior engineers and product leaders, gaining deep system context early in your career while contributing meaningful code from day one
- This role is intentionally rotational: you’ll start close to customer problems (support and reliability work), then increasingly shift into core product and platform work as you build context
- Please include a link to your GitHub in the application
- Investigate and resolve high‑priority production issues
- Debug across the stack with guidance from senior engineers
- Identify recurring issues and drive systemic fixes, not only one‑offs
- Build and improve features across the full stack (frontend, backend, infra)
- Improve documentation, runbooks, and onboarding paths for common scenarios
- Help build internal AI tooling (agents/chatbots) to handle common support workflows
- Improve logs, metrics, and diagnostics to make issues easier to detect and resolve
- Proactively reduce support load by making the product and tooling better
- Explore unfamiliar codebases or technologies
- This role is designed as a launchpad for strong engineers
- You’ll:
- Work closely with experienced engineers
- Gain exposure to real production systems early
- Build both product and platform skills
- Take on increasing ownership over time
- Potential future paths include product engineering, platform engineering, or customer-facing technical roles
- Your work will directly impact real-world robotics deployments
- You’ll learn faster than in large, siloed organizations
- You’ll contribute to meaningful features within weeks, not months
- You’ll build broad technical depth early in your career
Our take
The industrial robotics industry is a rapidly growing field, and its exponential scaling means human operators need to keep up with large amounts of data both being fed into automated tech and received from robotic operations. Looking to support robotics companies and help combat these operational challenges is Formant, a data robotics platform solution.
With Formant's cloud-based platform, users can easily deploy, scale, and manage their robot fleets, allowing them to focus on the robotics themselves. Founder Jeff Linnell has used his extensive expertise in the space to tackle insightful pain points like software issues or the hiccups where humans need to intervene.
Since its founding, Formant has acquired a number of customers and partners including the likes of BP and Soft Bank Robots. With several rounds of funding behind it, Formant is growing its customer base and increasing its stamp on the market, leveraging the increased interest in intelligent robot use at large enterprises and businesses.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2023
$21m
EARLY VC
Jan 2022
$18m
SERIES A
Total funding: $45m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- Unlimited vacation policy
- Unlimited potential for internal growth and advancement
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Jeff Linell
(Founder)Previously Director of Robotics at X, the moonshot factory and Head of Product (Robotics) at Google. Also was Founder and CEO of Bot & Dolly and Autofuss.
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