Founding Engineer

About the role

As a founding engineer and first full-time hire, you’ll be a cornerstone in building out the EffiGov platform and team. You’ll ship features, design scalable architectures, implement cutting edge tools and research, all in service of delivering for our early customers by any means necessary. You strike the right balance between scrappiness and elegance - we do everything manually or hardcode at least twice, only building the right processes or abstractions if there’s a third time. As the team grows, you’ll also be a mentor and a leader for new engineering hires.

Responsibilities

• Arrive at EffiGov HQ. Onboard. Ship your first feature (using Python FastAPI and Typescript Next.js).
• Resolve your first customer issue. Take note of 2 pain points and 1 opportunity for future expansion, after probing with a few well-posed follow-up questions.
• Manage and streamline cloud deployments through refining our CI/CD pipeline and cloud infra. Now everyone can ship faster.
• Navigate extreme ambiguity and coordinate with founders, other engineers, and FDEs to build a cohesive roadmap for the next month.
• Respond to a system issue with speed and precision after identifying root causes. Write up a customer-facing incident report and note down lessons for internal operations.
• Devise a redesign of a system component that prevents future incidents, increases reliability by 60%, and is more extendable for future updates.
• Lead the development of a new product vertical that unlocks major capabilities for city employees and builds towards our vision of creating the AI operating system for cities.
• Have a tangible impact on the real, built world for everyone, not just the top 1%. Have a massive stake in the building of an empire. Be surrounded by the top minds in AI + government for whom work is not a paycheck but a purpose.

Requirements

• 1-5 years of experience as an engineer shipping full stack solutions in an elite, high velocity team
• 1+ years of experience deploying LLMs (ideally voice AI) to production for thousands of users
• Experience with some of our tech stack: Python, FastAPI, Typescript, Next JS, Docker, MongoDB, AWS (ECS Fargate), OpenAI embeddings, LiveKit, Twilio
• A degree or significant coursework in a quantitative subject (CS, math, statistics, physics, or engineering)
• Demonstrated initiative and “love of the game”: Examples could include projects with real users, hackathon wins or awards, and open-source contributions
• Big Bonus: Experience leading projects at a top early-stage startup or founding experience
• Small Bonuses: Humanities minor or double major, published written work, policy or government experience.

Qualifications

You want to have a tangible impact on the real, built world for everyone, not just the top 1%. You want to have a massive stake in the building of an empire. You want to be surrounded by the top minds in AI + government for whom work is not a paycheck but a purpose.

Skills

None specifically listed, but strong technical skills and a passion for making a difference are required.

Benefits

Not specified in the job posting.

Pay

$100K - $200K

Schedule

Full-time