Founding Engineer, tldraw
GTM
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office
React SDK for building infinite canvas applications
Be an early applicant
React SDK for building infinite canvas applications
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock options
4 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To build the canvas infrastructure for the future of software.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years building modern web applications with React and TypeScript
- Strong debugging skills, tracing issues through component hierarchies, CSS specificity conflicts, and bundler configurations
- Experience integrating third-party libraries and SDKs into projects
- Comfortable reading and understanding unfamiliar codebases quickly
- 2+ years working directly with clients on technical implementations (Solutions Engineering, Technical Support, Implementation, Customer Success)
- Experience project managing multiple stakeholders, including external clients
- Strong written communication, able to explain complex technical concepts clearly
- Motivated by solving problems and helping developers succeed
- Comfortable in an early-stage environment with evolving processes
- Self-directed and organized; you get things done with minimal oversight
Desirable
- Experience at a developer tools company or working with SDKs
- Background in canvas/design tools (Figma, Miro, Canva, etc.)
- Familiarity with real-time collaboration systems (WebSockets, presence, sync)
- Experience building out an implementation or customer success function from scratch
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a engineer to be the technical champion for our customers - demos, POCs, firefighting, whatever it takes to make them successful right through to improving the SDK itself
- Tldraw’s SDK is broad and complex product and most customers need technical education and support to fully understand how tldraw can be the answer to their problems
- You will build and ship to help with that working closely with both the GTM team and the product engineering team
- This is the first role of its kind at tldraw and should be a hugely exciting prospect for the right applicant - offering the ability to shape not just a role but, over time, a whole function
- Work alongside the sales team to understand a client’s needs and provide technical reassurance that tldraw can help - by building and presenting demos, helping scope POCs, even advocating for product improvements
- Straddle the pre-and-post signature implementation kick-off: helping a client get to grips with what they have to do, helping them understand & navigate our documentation, and ensuring they have a clear plan & timeline for their tldraw project
- Create our implementation framework A ‘product’ that you’d build and own) to set customers up to successfully get their tldraw build from 0-1, built in a way that it can adapt to specific clients’ needs
- Own customer support triage - low volume, high complexity, great fun for a curious engineer
- Help the GTM team with in-house tooling needs - building on our already-pretty-awesome GTM tech stack
- Simply put, you'll help customers understand how to use & integrate the tldraw SDK
- Helping customers plan and scope SDK integration with existing products
- Guiding customers through developer resources
- Building demos, resources, and integration guides
- Debugging customer React/TypeScript integration issues
- Helping developers implement SDK features (custom shapes, tools, and UI)
- Troubleshooting integration conflicts
- Translating customer feedback into product improvements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The collaborative whiteboard space is a crowded one with major players acquiring some serious money. With tools like Figma's FigJam, Miro, and even Apple's new Freeform app proving there's enormous demand for digital canvases where teams can work together. However, most of these platforms lock you into their ecosystems, require logins, and come with rigid approaches to collaboration.
tldraw is taking a refreshingly open approach to this with a simple, free to use collaborative whiteboard that requires no account, just open it, start drawing, and share the link. But the real magic is the TypeScript SDK that lets developers build their own canvas applications. Think "Whiteboard-as-a-Service" with all the complex features like selection, rotation, undo/redo, and multiplayer sync that could take years to build yourself.
Founded in 2022, tldraw has grown incredibly fast, with 40,000 GitHub stars, 70,000 weekly npm installs, and 8,000 Discord members. And already, tldraw is powering hundreds of projects from drawing apps to AI video platforms to virtual classrooms. Now, tldraw plans to open-source its website and expand its collaborative features. With some serious momentum, it's shaping up to be a major player in how people build and use visual tools on the web.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$10m
SERIES A
Mar 2024
$9.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $24.1m
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Steve Ruiz
(Founder & CEO)Prior to Founding tldraw in 2022, Steve was a Product Designer at Play and ClearScore, a Design Educator at Framer, and a User Experience Architect at Inviqa.
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