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Founding Engineer in USA

  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Work across the full stack, including frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure.
  • Build data pipelines and internal tooling for onboarding sources and maintaining sector coverage.
  • Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems for greater capability and reliability.
  • Own systems end to end, including data inspection, quality assurance, instrumentation, shipping, debugging, and production fixes.
  • Add information sources, improve system speed or reliability, build a company ontology, and deliver core product features.

Requirements

  • At least 2 and approximately no more than 7 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems end to end.
  • Hands-on production experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications.
  • Full-stack experience with Python backend development, FastAPI or equivalent, TypeScript, and React.
  • Experience with data infrastructure and pipelines, including ETL, data modeling, and SQL.
  • Experience designing and optimizing PostgreSQL or similar relational databases.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring, and debugging distributed systems, AWS infrastructure and deployment, and real-time data systems.
  • Strong judgment about when AI agents should reason versus when deterministic logic should be used.
  • Must be a US citizen or have a valid US work visa; sponsorship is not available.
  • Bonus qualifications include capital markets, equity research, or financial services experience, and familiarity with dbt, columnar databases, vector search, or edge computing infrastructure.

Benefits

  • On-site in New York City five days per week.
  • Candidates must already be local or willing to relocate.
  • Salary range is $156,000 to $182,000 USD annually.
  • Visa sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $156k - $182k/yr

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