Aden

Scale AI agents profitably

Engineering Lead

$100K - $200K1.00% - 5.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Full stack
Experience
3+ years
Visa
Will sponsor
Skills
Vue.js, C++, MongoDB, Node.js, Kafka, SQL
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Vincent Jiang
Vincent Jiang
Founder

About the role

Overview

Glad that you found us! I hope that this page explains what we do pretty well. Feel free to reach out to us if there is anything unclear.

Aden is building a modern ERP designed for Operations Leaders. In the AI era, traditional enterprise software simply cannot meet the market demands in terms of performance, capabilities, and costs. Aden developing proprietary technologies with AI, streaming, and declarative programming to make enterprise data and resources more visible, controllable, and valuable than ever.

Today, hundreds of business teams use Aden to transform their processes and unlock more value from their data than ever before. Team Aden is engineering-focused and collaborative. Recently closed a Round led by Y Combinator, VCs, and industry leaders, we are setting off to solve some of the hardest problems in the enterprise world today.

As a software engineer, you’ll work on a variety of interesting products and problems for our customers. You’ll generate great product ideas, as well as architect, implement, and release them.

We love engineers owning projects, from start to finish. For example, new features often start off as customer ideas. So it could be your responsibility to talk to the customer and scope out what a solution might look like, in addition to actually building it, testing it, documenting it, and releasing iterating on it with the customer.

Qualification

Technical Leadership

  • BS or Master degree in Computer Science, or Math
  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Architecting, building, and maintaining web applications
  • Excellent communication skills in verbal and written English
  • SQL, Streaming SQL, GraphQL
  • API, Event Flow Design
  • Modern JavaScript Framework
  • Database (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.)

Strategic Vision

  • Product & technology strategy
  • Innovation & growth mindset
  • Scalability & performance focus

Leadership

  • Strong leadership skills
  • Great communication & collaboration
  • Talent acquisition & development

Website

FAQWhat does the interview process look like?

  • We’ll reach out for an intro call after reviewing your resume. We may follow up by scheduling a technical interview. If the tech round went well, we’d give you a small project. After assessing the project, we’d be ready and make an offer.

Can I work remotely?

  • Yes. We support a hybrid of remote and on-site work environments.

What’s it like working for a startup?

  • Being a small nimble team is the best way to grow fast both personally and collectively as a team. We tend to debunk some of the stereotypes about working at a startup. We rarely work overtime. Our processes are pretty clear and structured. Our goal is well-defined. Our financial risk is actually a lot lower than a lot of established businesses as we have zero debt, fewer commitments/overheads, and actually grow each month.

What can I expect in terms of compensation?

  • We aim to compensate competitively. Additionally, we ensure a “happy rate” and boost in pay for every milestone we achieve together.

What’s unique about this role?

  • We think big and innovate in technologies years ahead of market

What’s special about team Aden?

  • We’re a group of builders who aren’t afraid of the toughest engineering challenges. The world as we understand it is a big puzzle with tons of problems to be solved. The bigger our goal is, the more and harder the problems become. We’d always want to be the team that solves the most, and hardest problems.

About the interview

  • We’ll reach out for an intro call after reviewing your resume. We may follow up by scheduling a technical interview. If the tech round went well, we’d give you a small project. After assessing the project, we’ll schedule for an on-site visit. After the on-site, we’d be ready to make an offer.

About Aden

The Mission We are entering an era where software doesn't just execute code - it spends money. AI Agents are autonomous, powerful, and unpredictable. A single logic bug in a background loop can burn through a startup's runway in hours.

Aden is building the safety layer that makes agentic AI viable for the enterprise. We are the "CFO in the code" - the infrastructure that allows engineering teams to ship powerful AI features without the fear of bankruptcy-level accidents.

The Challenge We aren't building a passive analytics dashboard. We are building active, high-velocity financial infrastructure. At Aden, you will work on low-latency middleware that sits in the critical path of AI execution. Our systems need to ingest streams of trace data, calculate complex unit economics in real-time (using Materialize views), and make split-second decisions to "kill" connections before they spiral out of control.

Why Join Us?

High Stakes Engineering: You aren't centering divs. You are building the "circuit breakers" for the world's most advanced LLM applications.

Immediate Impact: Our code literally saves our customers money the second it is installed. You will see the results of your work in the "Saved Spend" column every day.

The "Picks and Shovels" of AI: While everyone else fights to build the best chatbot, we are building the essential governance layer that every AI company will eventually need to survive due diligence and enterprise procurement.

Who We Are We are a team of technical founders and builders (PhD / CS background) who value shipping over slides. We are looking for engineers who want to touch the metal, understand the intricacies of LLM tokenomics, and build the standard for AI financial governance.

Aden
Founded:2021
Batch:W20
Team Size:12
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Vincent Jiang
Vincent Jiang
Founder
Timothy Zhang
Timothy Zhang
Founder