Crouton
The living map of your organization
Founding Engineer
About the role
What is Crouton?
Crouton builds software that helps internal functions like Ops, Finance, and People keep a full timeline of their people: who works where, who’s on which team, who is staffed on what project. Customers use this information to forecast headcount, strategically organize the org structure, and provide clarity to the team about moving pieces during periods of growth or change.
About the role
We’re looking for a Founding Engineer who wants real ownership. You’ll build features, talk to customers, and help shape the product as we figure things out together.
You’ll work closely with the founder and our customer users. The team is small, and the trust is very high. We care about doing great work and winning, but we also like the people we’re doing it with. If you enjoy building useful things, taking initiative, and having your fingerprints all over the product, you’ll probably feel at home here.
Qualifications we look for
- College degree in Computer Science or related field of study
- At least 1 year in full-stack engineering, from React front-end to Postgres migrations to AWS infrastructure
- High emotional intelligence and kindness
About Crouton
The problem
Companies grow. Teams change. Projects shift. And suddenly no one is quite sure who is working on what anymore.
HR systems know your title and manager. Spreadsheets try to track everything else. The result is a lot of guesswork when leaders try to understand how people are actually allocated across teams and projects.
When that clarity is missing, simple questions become slow and political. Who can help with this project? Do we have room to hire? Where is our time really going?
The solution
Crouton is software that helps companies keep track of their people and how they are deployed.
Our customers use it to see who works on which teams, how people are staffed across projects, and how plans change over time. Instead of digging through spreadsheets or asking around, the answers are simply there.
It becomes the place where operations, finance, and team leads can all see the same picture of how the organization is actually running.
The vision
We think every company should be able to understand its own organization as clearly as it understands its financials. When that happens, they can use their most valuable resource, their people, with more intention and without sacrificing clarity.
Over time, Crouton becomes the place where companies plan teams, request new roles, and explore different ways of staffing the future. It starts with visibility. It grows into a control center for how work gets organized.
If that sounds exciting, you might enjoy helping build it.
The culture
Crouton is a small team with a lot of trust and a lot of ownership.
We talk to customers constantly. We build quickly. And we try to keep things simple so people can actually use what we make.
People here care about doing great work and winning together. They also have lives outside of work. Show up ready to contribute, help your teammates, and then feel good closing the laptop at the end of the day.
