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Founding Engineer

About BrightCore

BrightCore is a three-founder gym/fitness SaaS at pre-seed stage. Building a member-retention AI assistant (Coral) on WhatsApp and a NestJS/Postgres backend.

Job Description

Founding Engineer role for BrightCore, a three-founder gym/fitness SaaS at pre-seed. Own the backend (NestJS/Postgres) (~70%) and Coral, our WhatsApp AI agent for member retention (~30%). First engineering hire with real ownership and equity. Tech stack: NestJS, Prisma, Postgres, Next.js, Anthropic API, and Meta WhatsApp Cloud API. Requirements: 3–5 years backend experience, comfortable shipping solo, genuine curiosity about LLMs and retention modelling; ML hobbyist preferred over ML PhD. Salary €58–€65k; equity 1.0–1.5%. Location: Dublin, Ireland; Hybrid (2 days/week onsite). Apply via Frankie@brightcore.ie with a short note and a GitHub link or example of something you've shipped.

Remote Conditions

Hybrid: 2 days/week onsite in Dublin, Ireland; not fully remote

Location

Dublin, Ireland

Salary

58K

 to 

65K

Benefits

Equity options (1.0–1.5%)

Tech Tags

Equity Offered

Senior Role

Date Listed

05 May, 2026 (2 days ago)
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