Founding Engineer

About the Role

What You'll Do

What We're Looking For

Compensation & Benefits

Location

• On-site in New York, New York, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.

Qualifications

• At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 years or fewer of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications, with good judgment about when to use AI and when to use deterministic software.
• Full-stack capability, including Python backend development with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, React, data pipelines, and SQL.
• Experience with relational database design and optimization, preferably PostgreSQL, plus AWS infrastructure and deployment.
• Experience with production observability, distributed systems debugging, and real-time data or streaming updates.
• Strong ownership and depth in at least one of backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
• U.S. citizenship is required, along with a full-time commitment and ability to work on-site in New York City.
• Compensation & Benefits
• Base salary is $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity details were not provided.
• Location
• On-site in New York, New York, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.

Preferred Qualifications

• Capital markets, equity research, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is a plus. Familiarity with modern data tools, edge computing, or AI/ML tooling is also useful.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship features across frontend applications, backend services, and real-time systems.
• Create data pipelines and internal tools that help analysts add information sources and maintain industry coverage.
• Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for greater reliability and capability.
• Own work end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, production releases, and ongoing fixes.
• Develop a company ontology and an earnings research product.
• At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 years or fewer of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying production agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications, with good judgment about when to use AI and when to use deterministic software.
• Full-stack capability, including Python backend development with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, TypeScript, React, data pipelines, and SQL.
• Experience with relational database design and optimization, preferably PostgreSQL, plus AWS infrastructure and deployment.
• Experience with production observability, distributed systems debugging, and real-time data or streaming updates.
• Strong ownership and depth in at least one of backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
• Capital markets, equity research, investment banking, or broader financial services experience is a plus. Familiarity with modern data tools, edge computing, or AI/ML tooling is also useful.
• U.S. citizenship is required, along with a full-time commitment and ability to work on-site in New York City.
• Base salary is $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity details were not provided.
• On-site in New York, New York, five days per week. Candidates must be local or willing to relocate.