Founding Software Engineer

About REEUP

REEUP is the operating system for regulated supply chains. We build the platform that connects the operators, distributors, and retailers in industries where compliance is not optional — where every inventory movement has to be tracked, audited, and reconciled to a regulatory authority.

Our first market is in production and earning revenue today, serving multiple entity types (cultivators, processors, distributors, microbusinesses, retailers) on a single multi-tenant platform with deep state-by-state compliance integration. We are now expanding into pharmaceutical distribution in Hyderabad — bringing the same compliance-first operating model to medical and pharma supply chains, where lot tracking, cold-chain logistics, batch recalls, and regulator reporting are daily realities.

The codebase already powers real customers: Python, Next.js pages, FastAPI routers, deep two-way regulatory integration, ClickHouse analytics, dbt models, Airflow + Temporal workflow orchestration, and a sophisticated agentic AI plane. You would be the second engineer at REEUP. Today the team is a solo founder. After this hire, the team is two senior people and two interns — and the whole platform is in your hands and the founder's.

Why this role, why now

• Two markets, one platform. The technical thesis is that regulated supply chains are 80% the same problem with different acronyms. Build it once, ship it twice. You will help validate that thesis in pharma.
• Real customers in production today, real revenue. This is not a "we have an idea" startup — this is a "we have a thing that works and we are about to double the market" startup.
• Architectural leverage. The codebase already has multi-tenant isolation, compliance-aware data modeling, and a configurable regulatory-integration layer. Most of what we will need for pharma is generalization, not greenfield.

What you would do

• Be the second engineer at REEUP. Own meaningful surface area on day one — most likely starting in regulatory sync, multi-tenant inventory, or the agentic workflow plane, depending on where your strengths land.
• Generalize the compliance layer. Today it is purpose-built for one regulator. Help us refactor it into a clean, vertical-agnostic compliance framework that supports pharma's requirements (batch tracking, expiry dates, cold chain, narcotics schedules) alongside the existing regulator surface.
• Ship full-stack. Regulated SaaS is messy and the fastest path to value rarely respects neat backend/frontend boundaries. You will write FastAPI routes, raw SQL, React components, and Vitest tests in the same week.
• Help reshape the platform. The codebase has grown faster than the team. Pruning, consolidating, and deleting are part of your job — not just shipping new features.
• Own production. You will be on-call for the systems you build. Sentry, OpenTelemetry, and an existing observability stack are in place; you will use them.
• Mentor the two interns. They are sharp, motivated, and shipping code today.
• Influence the technical direction. We are not religious about any framework — we are religious about shipping compliant supply-chain software. If you want to argue for replacing Airflow with Temporal end-to-end, or simplifying the agentic surface, bring evidence and we will listen.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years shipping production software, with at least 2 years in a primary individual-contributor role at a small team (<15 engineers).
• Deep experience in either Python web backends (FastAPI / Django / Flask) OR modern React/Next.js — and meaningful production experience in the other half. We need a real full-stack engineer, not a backend engineer who has touched React, or vice versa.
• Comfort with raw SQL and relational data modeling.
• Prior experience in a compliance-heavy or regulated SaaS environment is a strong plus: pharma, healthtech, fintech, payments, supply chain, govtech, controlled substances. If not, you must show evidence of careful, audit-aware engineering elsewhere.
• Daily fluency with AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) and an opinion on how to use them well.
• Ability and willingness to be the technical voice of the team. You are not just shipping — you are setting standards.

Strong plus

• Direct experience with regulator-integration work — anything from FDA / DSCSA pharma traceability, SAP / Oracle distribution, NDC / GS1 barcoding, electronic prescribing, GST e-invoicing, or comparable regulator-facing systems.
• Experience with Temporal, Airflow, dbt, or ClickHouse.
• Prior agentic / LLM tool-use development (function calling, MCP, agent frameworks).
• Open-source contributions, founder/co-founder experience, hackathon wins, or other zero-to-one signal.
• Pharmaceutical-distribution domain context (Indian or US market) is a strong differentiator given our Hyderabad expansion.
• Cold-chain logistics, lot/batch tracking, or recall-management experience.

Location & working style

• HYD HQ - Hybrid (US time zones), — open to all three for the right candidate.
• Hyderabad-based hire would help anchor our pharma expansion and pair closely with the founder during travel cycles. We will set up the legal entity and payroll for the right candidate.
• Some overlap with US working hours expected (~3 hours/day) regardless of location.
• We do real-time pairing and customer support cycles; async-only is not a fit for hire.

What you will get

• Compensation calibrated to seniority and location plus equity.
• Equity: 3-year vest, 1-year cliff, extended 5-year post-termination exercise window, with 83(b) eligibility on early exercise.
• Direct work with the founder on every meaningful decision for the next 12 months.

How to apply

• Include a resume.