Founding Software Engineer

About the role

Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments.

Work directly with the founding team to define Ryvn’s technical direction and architecture.

Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions, with the autonomy to ship fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve.

Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure.

Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully, balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability and impact.

Responsibilities

• Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments
• Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define Ryvn’s technical direction and architecture
• Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions — with the autonomy to ship fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve
• Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure
• Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully — balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability and impact

Requirements

• 3+ years of software development experience, ideally including time at a small, high-growth company
• Full-stack fluency: Comfortable working across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages
• Strong technical judgment: Able to make pragmatic, well-reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward
• Ownership mindset: You take initiative, see problems through, and care deeply about the systems you build
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience deploying and scaling Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions
• Experience building with Go, TypeScript, and React
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation

Qualifications

• Experience with Postgres and S3
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Mimir

Skills

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Go
• Google Cloud
• React
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited PTO and sick leave
• Annual professional development stipend
• Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee
• Annual retreats and team offsites

Pay

$160K - $220K

Schedule

Full-time