Founding Engineer jobs in 2026 — required skills, demand trends, and top hiring cities
As of 2026-09-04, Skillenai has indexed 92 job postings with the title “Founding Engineer” over the past 90 days. The skill mentioned most often is TypeScript, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-04
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+How many Founding Engineer jobs are being posted in 2026?
Skillenai has indexed 92 job postings with the title “Founding Engineer” over the 90 days ending 2026-09-04, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks.
+What skills do Founding Engineer jobs require?
Across Founding Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-04, the skills mentioned most often are TypeScript, React, Python, Cursor, observability.
+Which cities are hiring the most Founding Engineer?
As of 2026-09-04, Founding Engineer postings indexed by Skillenai are concentrated in New York City, San Francisco, Munich, Berlin, London.
+Is Founding Engineer a good career path right now?
Skillenai indexes 92 Founding Engineer postings over the 90 days ending 2026-09-04, with demand down 27% vs the prior 4 weeks. The skill mentioned most often in Founding Engineer postings is TypeScript, so building it gives the strongest signal that an applicant matches the role.
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Weekly Founding Engineer postings — last 90 days
Skills most often required for Founding Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| TypeScript | 61 | 66.3% |
| React | 50 | 54.3% |
| Python | 40 | 43.5% |
| Cursor | 26 | 28.3% |
| observability | 25 | 27.2% |
| LLM APIs | 23 | 25.0% |
| PostgreSQL | 20 | 21.7% |
| Supabase | 20 | 21.7% |
| Typesense | 20 | 21.7% |
| Prisma | 20 | 21.7% |
| trigger.dev | 20 | 21.7% |
| AWS | 19 | 20.7% |
| data pipelines | 13 | 14.1% |
| Node.js | 13 | 14.1% |
| Distributed systems | 12 | 13.0% |
Top metros hiring Founding Engineer
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| New York City | 19 | 20.7% |
| San Francisco | 18 | 19.6% |
| Munich | 12 | 13.0% |
| Berlin | 7 | 7.6% |
| London | 5 | 5.4% |
| Ottobrunn bei München | 2 | 2.2% |
| Aachen | 1 | 1.1% |
| Atlanta | 1 | 1.1% |
| Austin | 1 | 1.1% |
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-04, matching postings whose canonical role is “Founding Engineer”. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-posted roles).
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- Founding Engineer
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 2026-09-04
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The demand, skills, and geo numbers on this page come from the same Skillenai labor market index that powers our API. Use it for compensation benchmarking, hiring-competition analysis, and skill-adoption tracking.
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