Build the operating system for businesses that actually make things.

We are building the schema-native operating system for physical-world businesses.

Factories. Export houses. D2C brands. Contractors. Co-working spaces. Warehouses. C&F agents. Any organization where real things move, people do work, and money changes hands based on operations.

The places where SAP takes 12 months and still fails. Where Tally only understands accounting, not operations. Where Zoho gives you forms and dashboards but no understanding of how your business actually runs.

If you want to design the ledger that replaces ERP itself, keep reading.

The founder built a manufacturing enterprise and scaled it to 200 employees and $30Mn+ in revenue. Managed. Crashed it. Rebuilding SimpleGrid now. Did an MBA from MDI Gurgaon. Worked in audit and investment banking. Understands both the spreadsheet and the factory floor.

You will work directly with the founder. No layers. No middle management.

Every physical business with operations runs into the same wall.

They start with Excel. Then WhatsApp groups for coordination. Then a custom-built tool. Then Tally for accounting. Then someone suggests "let's implement an ERP." Eighteen months and fifty lakhs later, they have a system that forces them to work the way the software was designed, not the way their business actually operates.

The fundamental problem is architectural. Every ERP ever built follows the same pattern: predefined modules (Sales, Inventory, Accounting, HR) integrated through brittle APIs. This creates:

• Rigid workflows that don't match how the business actually runs
• 12-18 month implementation cycles because every business is forced into the same module structure
• Low-literacy workers who can't use the system, so they revert to paper and WhatsApp
• Zero adaptability — adding a new approval step or quality check requires a development cycle

This is not a manufacturing problem. This is every physical business with operations, from a 50-person D2C brand to a 1000-person export house. The dead zone between "too complex for spreadsheets" and "too expensive for SAP" is massive and completely underserved.

SimpleGrid.AI is not an ERP. It is a schema-driven AI event engine built on Domain-Driven Design principles.

We don't give you predefined modules. We map how your business actually runs and configure the system around it. Approvals, handoffs, dependencies, conditions — all built around your real workflow, not around software someone designed for a different company.

You can modify it anytime using natural language:

If a new user needs to be created, the system prompts you. If manager approval is required, it routes automatically. The structure updates instantly. No redevelopment. No reimplementation cycles.

Three Architectural Layers

We deploy a new client in under 7 days. Not because we cut corners, but because the architecture makes it possible.

Our paid pilot is with a 500 employee furniture exporter with two factories spread across almost 1 Million sqft — a business drowning in 550 Excel files for SKU data, manually re-typing purchase orders from PDFs, coordinating production on WhatsApp & Excel, and reconciling contractor payments from paper notebooks at month-end. SAP quoted them 18 months. We are deploying in under 7 days.

This is not a free trial. They are paying because the pain is real and urgent. Two more manufacturers in the pipeline have shown strong interest.

Furniture is the first deployment. It is not the product. The product is the schema engine underneath. The same engine that models a furniture exporter's multi-stage production line will model a D2C brand's warehouse operations, a co-working space's billing workflows, or an export house's shipment tracking. Different schemas, same platform.

You are graduating in 2025 or 2026. Or you graduated recently and haven't yet settled into a role where your biggest challenge is navigating Confluence.

Non-negotiables

• You've shipped something real. A hackathon win, an open-source project with users, a side project that people depend on. Something where you made design decisions and lived with the consequences.
• You are fluent in TypeScript or Python
• You thrive in ambiguity. We have a clear architectural vision but implementation details are being figured out live.

Strong signals

• You've read Evans' DDD or worked on an event sourcing architecture (If you don't know all of this — no problem. But you must want to learn it).

The "Safe" Path	The SimpleGrid Path
SDE-1 badge. 1 of 3,000 engineers.	Founding Engineer. Employee #1.
Maintain a legacy codebase nobody loves.	Architect a schema-driven AI system from scratch.
Wait 2 years for a "meaningful" project.	Ship production code to paying clients in Week 1.
Learn corporate politics.	Learn how to build a company.
₹25L package, 60% of it is imaginary.	Below-market cash + founding-level ESOPs (0.5%-1.5%).
Your GitHub stays empty.	Your GitHub becomes your portfolio.

Component	Details
Salary	₹10-12 LPA. Range reflects demonstrated capability, not negotiation skill.
Equity	Founding-level ESOPs. 4-year vest, 1-year cliff. Allocation based on work delivered in first 3 months.
Growth	In 12 months you won't just be a better engineer. You'll understand unit economics, client management, and how businesses actually work.

Don't send a resume. Send:

• A link to something you've built. GitHub repo, deployed app. Show us the code, not the certificate.

If your work is interesting, you'll hear from the founder directly within 48 hours. No ATS. No HR screen. No ghosting.

We are building the schema-native operating system for physical-world businesses.

Factories. Export houses. D2C brands. Contractors. Co-working spaces. Warehouses. C&F agents. Any organization where real things move, people do work, and money changes hands based on operations.

The places where SAP takes 12 months and still fails. Where Tally only understands accounting, not operations. Where Zoho gives you forms and dashboards but no understanding of how your business actually runs.

If you want to architect the system that replaces ERP itself, keep reading.

The founder built a manufacturing enterprise and scaled it to 200 employees and $30Mn+ in revenue. Managed. Crashed it. Rebuilding SimpleGrid now. Did an MBA from MDI Gurgaon. Worked in audit and investment banking. Understands both the spreadsheet and the factory floor.

You will work directly with the founder as a technical co-pilot. No layers. No middle management. Your decisions shape the product.

We need someone who has built systems at scale and wants to do it again — but this time, from the ground up. Someone who has seen enough enterprise software to know what's broken and has the conviction to build something fundamentally different.

You'll own the technical architecture of a schema-driven AI event engine built on Domain-Driven Design principles. You'll make decisions about the event ledger, the schema engine, the AI interaction layer, and how they compose together.

You have 3-8 years of experience. You've built production systems. You've dealt with scale, reliability, and the messy realities of software in the real world.

Non-negotiables

• You've designed and shipped systems that handle real load — not just CRUD apps, but systems with meaningful state management, event flows, or domain complexity.
• Deep fluency in TypeScript and/or Python. You have strong opinions about type systems, architecture patterns, and testing strategies.
• You've worked with event-driven architectures, DDD, or similar patterns in production — or you've studied them deeply enough to implement from first principles.
• You can mentor junior engineers while shipping at speed. You lead by building, not by delegating.

Strong signals

• Experience with event sourcing, CQRS, or immutable log architectures in production.
• Background in enterprise/B2B SaaS, ERP systems, or operational software.
• Experience integrating LLMs into production workflows (not just wrappers around ChatGPT).

Component	Details
Salary	₹20-30 LPA. Reflects experience and demonstrated architectural capability.
Equity	Founding-level ESOPs (1.5%-3%). 4-year vest, 1-year cliff. You're not joining a company — you're building one.
Role	Technical co-founder in all but title. You'll shape product decisions, hire the engineering team, and define the technical culture.

Don't send a resume. Send:

• A link to something you've architected. A system design doc, a GitHub repo, a technical blog post. Show us how you think about systems.
• A brief note on why SimpleGrid's architecture interests you.

If your work is interesting, you'll hear from the founder directly within 48 hours. No ATS. No HR screen. No ghosting.