Founding Engineer

Overview

Founding Engineer (Backend / Infra) at Indi, an AI startup. This is a founding, full-time role based in Sydney, NSW, AU, with the team located in Melbourne & Sydney. You will work directly with founders and engineers/designers as part of a founding team and contribute to building Indi's core AI product and health-tech infrastructure.

Team: Early team, working directly with founders and engineers / designer.

What you'll do

• Set direction from day one: make key decisions about how we solve problems, manage the codebase, and scale the system. This is about owning delivery and architecture.
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable features and infrastructure for AI-powered development tools.
• Collaborate with the team to improve Indi's capabilities through reliable backend services, shared tools and evaluations.
• Stay ahead of advancements in AI-native products by experimenting with new tools, evaluating emerging techniques, and tracking enhancements to existing ones.
• Contribute across the stack from back-end infrastructure to front-end experience to develop new features, fix bugs, and optimise performance.
• Engineer with compliance, privacy, and trust at the core, ensuring we meet safety and regulatory standards that parents and clinicians rely on.

Stack includes: Python, Supabase, React/Next.js, ReactNative; Cloud infra (Fly.io, Docker, Postgres); AI tooling (LangGraph, OpenAI API, custom evals).

You may be a good fit if you

• Are excited about AI-native applications that help parents navigate developmental journeys and support allied health and paediatric care.
• Spend time refining and customizing AI workflows to improve developer productivity and acceleration.
• Have experience deploying and optimizing cloud infrastructure and compliant systems.
• Are an expert in backend/infrastructure (Python, cloud infra, compliance) with comfort in full-stack (React).
• Specialise in backend engineering but are a capable full-stack developer.
• Have worked on projects with stringent safety, security and/or compliance requirements.
• Care about the societal impacts and ethics of your work.
• Make critical build vs. buy decisions for infrastructure components and set technical direction for product infrastructure.

Strong candidates may also have

• Experience developing for health, education, or family-focused products.
• Deploying frontier AI-native products or shaping new interaction paradigms.
• Pride in reliability and efficient architecture.
• Experience as an early-stage engineer hire in a startup.
• Ability to balance startup speed with production reliability.
• Deep expertise scaling PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB, or similar databases.
• Experience with Redis, Temporal, RAG databases, or async job processing frameworks.

About Indi

Indi is the shared AI co-pilot for child development — built to support parents, carers, and clinicians navigating complex health journeys with kids who don't fit the mould. We turn messy real-life data into a structured, living record of a child that can be visualised, shared, and actioned by the care team. Indi generates artefacts and communication tools for educators, therapists, doctors, and support workers, enabling clarity, coordination, and earlier intervention. We aim to reduce parental mental load and support emotional wellbeing, while building Indi as a true companion for parents.

We're a lean, fast-moving team based in Melbourne & Sydney, with a culture of high-trust, low-ego, and mission-led work. We hire people who care about impact, pace, initiative, inclusion, and humanity. We're building a team that reflects the families we serve: diverse, kind, emotionally intelligent, and bold enough to redesign the system, not just digitise it.

Note on hiring and partnerships

We're looking for our founding engineer to help us build and maintain Indi's core AI product and health-tech capabilities. This is a role with Indi, not with Hatch. Indi is partnering with Hatch on this recruitment. This is a full-time role — but we're open to flexible arrangements (e.g., 3–4 days a week) if it suits the right candidate.

This is a role with Indi and will include equity reflecting ownership and long-term impact.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Science
• Industries: Internet Marketplace Platforms

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