Founding Software Engineer

Franchise Foundry

Full-time Other-General
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Location
toronto, on, Canada
Posted
June 16, 2026

Job Description

Location: Toronto, ON or Waterloo, ON

Type: Full-time / will consider contract to start

Comp: Competitive salary + meaningful equity

TL;DR

We're building Franchise Foundry — the Shopify for Franchising — an orchestrated engine of specialized AI agents that help successful local businesses try to become the next McDonald's. We're hiring an early-career software engineer to be employee-low-single-digits and ship code that touches everything from Voice AI SDRs to auto-generated 300-page legal documents.

Why this is the job to take

  • We're attacking a market where only 300 new franchise systems get created per year despite 6 million small businesses waiting in the wings — the bottleneck is human knowledge work, and AI just blew it up.
  • Every 100,000 locations we enable generates $1B in revenue for Foundry , and we only need a few thousand franchisor clients to get massive. ...