Founding AI Platform Engineer (Hands-On CTO Track)
$200,000–$250,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States
Job Summary
Extend the production platform and agent architecture across builder intake, underwriting, capital matching, reporting, and internal decision-making. Translate ambiguous operating problems into clear specifications and build a common data layer connecting documentation, credit analysis, and persistent profiles. Design dependable workflows combining deterministic software, AI, human judgment, and auditable override trails. Own the full production lifecycle from architecture through deployment, observability, and iteration, deciding what to build, buy, or govern. This role sits within the founding team of a NYC-based real estate capital company building the standard for Homebuilder Finance. You will work directly inside the codebase to turn existing business needs into dependable systems as the company scales its institutional investment program.
Required Qualifications
- 10 or more years of software engineering experience
- Meaningful ownership of complex production systems
- Deep full-stack experience spanning modern frontend development, backend systems, data, cloud infrastructure, and production operations
- Strong experience with a modern frontend framework and JavaScript or TypeScript
- Meaningful backend and systems depth with the ability to reason across an entire production environment
- Practical experience with deployment, observability, infrastructure, cloud systems, and DevOps
- Evidence of personally designing, building, testing, shipping, operating, and materially evolving consequential production systems
- Direct applied-AI experience such as agent orchestration, LLM-powered products, AI-enabled internal tools, or serious development workflows using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or comparable tools
- A realistic understanding of AI's limitations, failure modes, evaluation requirements, and appropriate role in production systems
- Experience beyond a narrow engineering lane such as founding a company or working closely with product, operations, finance, sales, clients, or another business-facing function
- The agency to identify important gaps and act without waiting for someone to hand you a complete problem statement
- Startup or similarly high-ownership experience
- Experience in lending, structured finance, capital markets, credit, real estate, or another operationally complex financial environment
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in lending, structured finance, capital markets, credit, real estate, or another operationally complex financial environment is valuable but not required
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