Firebender (YC W24) Is Hiring

Jul 22, 2025 - 21:15
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Firebender

Android Studio Coding Assistant

Founding Engineer (Generalist)

$180K - $250K / 1.00% - 3.00%LocationSan Francisco, CA, USJob TypeFull-timeExperienceAny (new grads ok)VisaUS citizen/visa only
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Kevin Tang
Co-founder

About the role

Firebender processes tens of billions of tokens per day for the thousands of concurrent coding agents, and auto complete model. Every month hundreds of millions of lines of code are added to codebases of companies ranging from startups to fortune 500.

Building a great coding agent is likely the most valuable technical challenges to solve right now, and we’re already making great progress on this. If this challenge excites you, let’s talk.

Responsibilities

  • Build/iterate on agentic evaluation, and discovery multi agent strategies to solve harder and harder coding problems on large codebases
  • Manage infrastructure of our h100 cluster, and implement run time improvements like speculative decoding, kv-cache tuning, etc.
  • Talk to engineers to gather feedback, and implement/deploy quickly

Qualifications

  • can articulate an engineering feat that you’ve accomplished that shows you can build quickly
  • 1+ years of software experience/B.S computer science is nice to have, but not hard requirement
  • Kotlin or Android engineering experience is a plus, but not a requirement

This is a good fit if:

  • You love building fast and solving hard problems
  • Helping thousands of engineers leverage AI is exciting
  • Believe in automating mundane engineering tasks
  • You are not afraid to work hard in-person and grow technically with a team of dense talent
  • You learn quickly, and not tied to any specific technology

About Firebender

Firebender is an AI Coding agent for Android Engineers. Thousands of android engineers use Firebender to create entire features, fix bugs, and build extraordinarily quickly.

We're a small, tight-knit in-person team based in San Francisco.

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