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Bricks Ai

Bricks Ai

Milan, Italy · Remote
EUR 50k-65k / year + Equity
Posted on Nov 26, 2025

Founding engineer

TLDR

Who: Full-stack founding engineer w/ min 3y of experience
When: ASAP
Where: Milan (but we can be flexible)
Package: 50,000€ - 65,000€/year RAL + stock option plan

Who we are

Who you are

We’re looking for a
full-stack founding engineer
to help build a product that will reach millions of developers in a few years.
You have at least 3 years of experience building products in a product-focused environment, working on both frontend and backend.
You’re passionate about devtools, and easily understand dev pain points.
You take initiative and aren’t afraid to get hands-on with different tech. We’re based in JavaScript and Python—with React/Next.js, FastAPI, MongoDB, and MySQL experience being a big plus.

How we work

We ship fast Speed makes or breaks us
Product-first, customer-obsessed You’ll be in customer chats from day one
You own your initiatives, from start to release No backend/frontend handoffs—just full ownership for full-stack devs
No rigid process, but constant improvement We keep things loose but refine how we work every two weeks

What we’d love to see

You’re a good human
You’ve built from scratch and don’t mind a bit of scrappiness
You focus on solving user pain points, not just tech
You are highly logical and can explain why a technical choice is best for users
You take a big amount of ownership and responsibility
You know how to give and take feedback
BONUS
: experience building OSS

What you’ll find

Rapid growth with global investors
Real people, not AI-bots
Ego-free, collaborative environment
Boundless international ambition
Product obsessed mindset

What you will
not
find

Rigid processes
9-17 schedule
Low-impact work

Location

We work from anywhere, and we’ll consider you regardless of where you like to live. However, we’ll prefer candidates from Italy as we’d love to meet in person often.

Process

Chat with Dario (20 mins)
Async assessment (1.30h ca)
Review of assessment with Giuliano, CTO (45 mins)
Spend some time together (TBD—based on availability)
Offer
Don’t tick all the boxes? No prob
We don’t know what we don’t know. If you believe you can provide value to Bricks AI even if you don’t tick all the boxes, just apply anyway

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