Fredrin careers: remote jobs, culture and where they hire

Fredrin is a desktop app (macOS, Windows and Linux) that turns a Kanban board into what it calls an AI software factory: every ticket gets its own git branch, its own worktree and its own AI coding agent session, so a developer can run many agents in parallel and steer them from one board instead of a pile of terminal tabs. Tickets end in real pull requests with CI status flowing back to the board, agents run on your own machine using the AI subscription you already pay for (with no token markup), and teams get a shared realtime board with shared project memory. Pricing is a free tier, Pro at $20 a month, Team at $29 a seat and a custom Enterprise tier, and the site says it is used by developers from AWS, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, SeatGeek and Whatnot.

The company is young and small: founder Jae Lee's LinkedIn dates it to October 2025, it is headquartered in Los Angeles, and third-party data puts the team at roughly 3 people as of late 2026. The about page is a founder essay about why it exists: the team got tired of babysitting parallel agent sessions whose context never connected to the ticket tracker, so they built one surface holding the board, branch, worktree, agent, terminal and artifacts together. The team says it uses Fredrin to build Fredrin, with most changes shipping through the same agent-driven flow it sells.

Jae Lee, Founder and CTO. Los Angeles full-stack engineer and serial builder with 20+ years across gaming, fintech and blockchain startups. Known online as @jaequery (on GitHub since 2011, 119 public repos), he open-sourced Ult, a full-stack kickstart framework built on Nest.js, Next.js, tRPC and Prisma, and describes his specialty as getting ambitious MVPs off the ground quickly. He signs the Fredrin about page personally and started the company in October 2025.

Every role is fully remote, async-first across time zones, with a written culture the careers page says "cares about what you ship, not where you sit." All four open roles repeat the same working style: small team, high trust, working directly with the founders, owning whole problems rather than tickets, few meetings, and a bias for shipping something real every week.

The work sits at the center of the current wave of agentic coding tools. The senior engineering role owns the agent orchestration core (sessions, worktrees, branches, the pipeline that turns a ticket into a PR), and the forward deployed engineer role embeds with customer engineering teams to wire Fredrin into their repos and CI and stays until their first agent-run tickets are merging, then turns what it learns in the field into product changes rather than one-off scripts.

Dogfooding is the operating principle: "We use Fredrin to build Fredrin" appears on every job posting, and the homepage says the team ships the product from its own board. The bar for applicants mirrors it; the forward deployed engineer posting says every applicant should arrive already knowing how the board, worktrees and review flow work, because "you'll be teaching it on day one."

Communication is written-first with few meetings, and roles are written for self-directed people: the FDE posting notes you will often be the only Fredrin person inside an account and are expected to unblock yourself, and the growth posting wants someone who can run a week of experiments without anyone assigning them.

As of October 2026 there are four openings, all fully remote: Forward Deployed Engineer, Sr. Software Engineer, UI/UX Designer and Growth Hacker. Applications go through a short form on each job page (name, email, resume, plus optional LinkedIn, GitHub and portfolio links and a short message); there is no external ATS. No interview process is published.

The engineering postings ask for strong TypeScript, real git depth (branches, worktrees, rebases, what breaks when many agents touch one repo), comfort close to the OS (processes, file systems, shells, CLIs) and hands-on experience using AI coding agents in real work. The company's October 2026 Hacker News hiring post lists $150K to $250K for the forward deployed engineer role; the careers site itself does not publish pay bands, benefits or equity.