Founding Engineer

Zatanna is looking for a **Founding Engineer** with deep expertise in reverse engineering and infrastructure to work directly alongside the founders to build and maintain integrations across web portals, cloud applications, and on-premise software.

You'll be responsible for building reliable systems that interact with software never designed to have APIs and scaling the infrastructure that powers those integrations. This is a highly hands-on role that involves direct customer communication, tight deadlines, and frequent context switching across industries like healthcare, logistics, and enterprise software. We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, enjoys tackling problems with no obvious solutions, and takes full ownership of their work.

**What you'll work on:**

* Reverse engineer web applications, desktop software, and legacy systems to create reliable read/write APIs.
* Build and scale the infrastructure responsible for running, monitoring, and maintaining integrations across thousands of customer environments.
* Solve challenging problems involving authentication, session management, browser automation, network protocols, and undocumented APIs.
* Develop robust systems for interacting with on-premise software through RDP, virtual machines, and other remote access methods.
* Work directly with customers to understand their technical requirements, troubleshoot issues, and ship solutions quickly.
* Design systems that can recover gracefully from UI changes, application updates, and unexpected failures.

**Who we're looking for:**

* Strong experience with reverse engineering, backend engineering, distributed systems, or infrastructure.
* Comfortable working with browser internals, HTTP requests, network traffic, authentication flows, and undocumented APIs.
* Ability to independently investigate unfamiliar systems and figure out how they work.
* Experience building production-grade systems where reliability, performance, and scalability matter.
* Comfortable moving quickly, juggling multiple priorities, and owning problems end to end.
* Strong communication skills and willingness to work directly with customers.
* High agency, technical curiosity, and a bias toward shipping.