Founding Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI and data infrastructure company building systems for the offline economy, starting with consumer packaged goods. As a founding engineer, you will work across backend infrastructure and customer-facing products to help physical brands improve finance, sales, and operations.

What You'll Do

• Build and deploy evaluation platforms that create fast feedback loops around product outcomes.

• Develop foundational data infrastructure for single-tenant and multi-tenant hosting at terabyte scale.

• Own end-to-end delivery of production AI agents for customers.

• Design a context layer that captures how organizations operate.

• Help shape engineering practices, product direction, and team culture.

What We're Looking For

• At least 3 years of backend or full-stack engineering experience, with demonstrated delivery of projects that achieved measurable impact.

• Experience with a server-side language such as Python, Go, Java, or Rust, as well as TypeScript.

• Familiarity with Python, TypeScript, Next.js, GCP, and Terraform.

• Experience designing and delivering cross-stack, customer-facing products, including data pipelines or extraction systems.

• Fluency with AI-native development tools and workflows, including coding agents and tool integrations.

• Strong debugging skills in production environments and comfort working in an early-stage, fast-moving company.

• Strong software engineering fundamentals, demonstrated through relevant education or equivalent professional experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary range: $150,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site, five days per week in New York, New York, United States.