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Random question for techy profession people; I was one of two software engineers brought on during the founding of a start up and wrote the initial implementation of the serverside infrastructure for the product (the other engineer was writing client code). I was not "a founder" - I had no involvement with investment, financing, etc.

Obviously, with two engineers I didn't have a fancy job title, but the work I was doing required at least the level of technical skill as my preceeding "staff engineer" post. Would it be accurate to use "founding engineer" to describe the post, or would you associate that with an engineer who is an actual "founder"?

I've worked remotely for US firms for years, but I must admit I'm still frequently confused by what different job titles mean to different people.

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Random question for techy profession people; I was one of two software engineers brought on during the founding of a start up and wrote the initial implementation of the serverside infrastructure for the product (the other engineer was writing client code). I was not "a founder" - I had no involvement with investment, financing, etc.

Obviously, with two engineers I didn't have a fancy job title, but the work I was doing required at least the level of technical skill as my preceeding "staff engineer" post. Would it be accurate to use "founding engineer" to describe the post, or would you associate that with an engineer who is an actual "founder"?

I've worked remotely for US firms for years, but I must admit I'm still frequently confused by what different job titles mean to different people.