Founding Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Innovation in Evaluation: Define and build the new standard for technical interviewing, creating systems that retire outdated evaluation methods and provide high-fidelity talent assessments
• AI Implementation: Utilize AI and machine learning to detect fraud, identify complex patterns in candidate performance, and significantly accelerate the hiring lifecycle
• System Architecture: Design, develop, and maintain critical full-stack systems from the ground up, ensuring high performance and scalability
• End-to-End Ownership: Manage features and systems through the entire lifecycle—from initial concept and architectural design to deployment and monitoring
• Strategic Input: As one of the first engineering hires, play a key role in shaping the technical roadmap and making fundamental architecture decisions

Requirements

• Technical Proficiency: 4+ years of experience in modern full-stack development. Advanced proficiency in React, Node.js, and Python (or similar frameworks) is expected
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience managing cloud-native infrastructure within AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Startup Mindset: Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment where ambiguity is common
• Coding Fundamentals: Highly technical with a strong bias toward code quality, security, and performance
• Founding Mentality: A desire to solve problems end-to-end and a willingness to take radical ownership over outcomes rather than just tickets

Location

Location: Ability to work on-site five days a week in the New York City office to foster high-bandwidth collaboration

Sponsorship and Relocation

Our client is open to candidates who will relocate and will consider visa sponsorship

Benefits

• Build the Future: Join at the ground floor and play a pivotal role in shaping both the product and the company culture while solving complex, industry-wide problems
• Competitive Pay & Equity: Competitive compensation packages including significant equity ownership to ensure early hires benefit from the company's growth
• Comprehensive Health Insurance: Health insurance coverage provided for both the employee and their dependents
• Financial Wellness: A 401(k) plan is provided to help the team invest in their long-term financial future
• Onsite Benefits: Work from a Midtown Manhattan office with daily team lunches, dinners, and a fully stocked selection of snacks and beverages
• Quarterly Offsites: Opportunities to travel together every quarter to bond, brainstorm, and recharge as a team
• Early Impact: Join at a critical inflection point—past product-market fit, but before scaling takes over