
Make everyone on your team an engineer
We’re hiring a founding engineer who moves fast, cares about craft, and wants real ownership from day one. You’ll live in a hacker house with the team and build side by side with the founders from day one.
You should already use AI tools by default — pushing Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, and agent workflows hard, judging output critically, and moving faster without lowering the bar.
Lane 1: Experienced builder
You’ve already spent a few years shipping product at a strong startup or fast-moving company. You’re now looking for much more ownership, much more scope, and much more upside.
Lane 2: Exceptional emerging builder
You may have only 1–2 years of experience, or an unconventional background, but you’ve already built real things, move unusually fast, have strong taste, and show real evidence of ownership. We care much more about slope, output, and judgment than pedigree.
Sparkles is building Lovable for large existing codebases.
Everyone is using coding agents now, but many teams are still stuck relying on outsourced development agencies, and it can take weeks to turn an idea into something live in production.
Sparkles is building the AI workflow for teams shipping changes to existing products. We’re making it possible for product, design, marketing, and ops teams to safely make real changes to production codebases through GitHub-native workflows, reviewable pull requests, and the right guardrails.
Sparkles was founded by Dan, who dropped out of University College London and previously worked with the former CTO of Monzo at Iterate.com. We raised $3.5M, backed by Y Combinator, Moonfire Ventures, and angels from OpenAI, Anthropic, a16z, General Catalyst, Cloudflare, and others.