SageReport is seeking a founding engineer to join their team and help build an AI-powered education platform for school-based clinicians. The role involves working on a remote team, with a focus on building features and fixing bugs in a lightweight and autonomous environment.
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Technical Skills Required
Benefits & Perks
Job Description
SageReport | Founding Engineer | Remote (US timezones) | $200-250k + 2.5% equity
We build AI tools for school-based clinicians - report generation, IEP writing, case management, and more. There are 160,000 school-based clinicians in the US, all drowning in paperwork and unsupported by technology. We're giving them their time back so they can focus on the kids they serve. We’re improving paperwork compliance to potentially save districts millions in legal exposure. There is currently no direct competition.
Traction: One unsolicited Facebook post from a tester → 200+ beta tester signups within the day. A partner district with 55 psychs fully onboarded and surveys indicating near-ceiling Net Promoter Scores and Product Market Fit. Sixty nationwide beta testers onboarding now. Users emailing us regularly saying this is changing their lives. Launching in 2 months. We're not marketing yet—it's just coming to us.
We're looking for our first engineering hire. Founding engineer role. You'd be the second technical person, US-based, ensuring the technical side isn't a single point of failure.
Tasks
- Frontend: React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Firebase (Firestore, Auth, Functions, Storage), Node.js
- We use AI tooling heavily in development and applicant should prefer this method
Modern but not exotic. If you're an experienced web developer, you'll be productive quickly.
Looking for: 10+ years experience. Comfortable remote. Autonomous. Sees things through to done. Brings good energy to a small team that genuinely gets along and has mutual respect.
$200-250k depending on experience. 2.5% equity.
Full details on our website /engineering.
This is our first engineering hire. A founding engineer role.
The technical side is currently one person. We need a senior engineer in US timezones to share the load, extend coverage, and make sure the technical side of the company isn't a single point of failure. This isn't "join a team." You'd be helping build the team.
Day-to-day:
We're async-first. Slack, Linear, PRs. One or two sync calls per week (1-2 hours) unless something urgent comes up, likely more with product side following launch. 80-90% of your day should be focused building. The rest is communication, code review, occasionally handling support issues.
No formal sprints. You take the next important thing, you ship it, you move on.
For bigger changes, we write short design docs: something you can put together in a day, then async back-and-forth to sanity-check scope and approach. We're not looking for 22-step task breakdowns. We want to know what's affected, what the risks are, and that we've thought it through. For smaller things, just do it, maybe a quick Slack message if there are real tradeoffs to weigh.
Early days vs. later:
In your first weeks, you'll be reading code, getting familiar with the system, and finding your footing. We won't have a formal onboarding curriculum, you'll be able to orient yourself and identify where you can start contributing. Once familiar, we'll have more structure and rhythm. You'll be building features and fixing bugs in focused stretches. Still lightweight on process, but with clearer patterns.
Requirements
Experience and disposition:
- 10-15 years of experience. You've worked on enough projects to have good judgment about tradeoffs.
- You've been remote for a while and it works for you.
- You're autonomous. You can take a problem, figure out the approach, and drive it to completion without a lot of oversight.
- You close loops. When you pick something up, you see it through—tested, deployed, communicated.
- You're technically broad. You understand how things actually work—auth, databases, networking, performance, security—not just how to use the abstractions. We're a small team working with sensitive data in schools; we take security seriously and need someone who does too.
- You're steady. Startups are unpredictable, but you can handle stress and don't add to the chaos. We can get tired, but the vibes are good.
On AI tooling:
We use AI heavily in development. It's not a gimmick, it's core to how we move quickly with a small team. Working with AI tooling requires ongoing attention and adaptation, but we believe it significantly accelerates what's possible. We expect any new team member to be comfortable working this way. If you're skeptical or prefer to avoid AI-assisted development, that's a legitimate choice, but we're probably not the right fit.
Nice to have:
- TypeScript/JavaScript experience
- React experience
- Comfort with CSS (though not absolutely necessary)
- Firebase/Firestore (you'll pick it up quickly if you're solid generally)
What probably won't work
The following is intentionally direct, because it saves everyone time:
If you prefer detailed specs before starting work. We write lightweight design docs for bigger efforts, but you won't get comprehensive requirements handed to you. If you're most comfortable in environments with well-defined workflows and clear handoffs, our pace will feel uncomfortable.If you're not sure remote works for you. Fully remote isn't for everyone. Some people thrive, some struggle with isolation or self-direction. If you haven't done it before, this probably isn't the role to find out. We need someone who already knows they do well in this setup.
Benefits
Equity: 2.5%, with room to negotiate based on experience and your cash/equity preference. Standard 4-year vest, 1-year cliff.
Benefits: Health/Vision/Dental + Paid Vacation - We're building out a proper benefits package. It's not fully formalized yet, but it will be. Happy to discuss where we're headed.Location: Fully remote. US timezones required.
If you've spent years at companies where you had less ownership than you wanted, less autonomy than you could handle, and less meaning in the work than you hoped for, this might be what you're looking for.
We're small. You'd have real impact. The mission is tangible: school teams are overwhelmed and at-risk kids fall through the cracks as a result. We're helping fix that.
It's also demanding. We're a small team. If something breaks, we fix it. If something needs building, we build it. If you want structure and predictability, this isn't it. That said, we also have kids and understand that life happens and family comes first.
Message us with:
- A bit about your background and why this interests you
- A link to GitHub, LinkedIn, or whatever best shows your work
- Any questions you have for us
We're not going to make you do a leetcode test. We'll have a conversation, look at some work together, and figure out if this is a good fit.