Founding Engineer
$170,000–$220,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
EXPIREDNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$170,000–$220,000 yearStartup
Full TimeStartup
Job Summary
Build autonomous agents for real-world information extraction and design a full-stack, self-serve application for complex workflows. Maintain and scale backend architecture to handle high-throughput data-intensive workloads while contributing across infrastructure, ML pipelines, and website updates. This founding engineer role focuses on extracting, analyzing, and visualizing web data at scale for enterprise customers, with direct collaboration on core systems ranging from distributed backend services to autonomous agent workflows.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of professional experience shipping production software, or equivalent demonstrated skill in a 0→1 environment
- Proven track record launching meaningful products on small, early-stage teams with rapid iteration cycles
- Hands-on experience building LLM applications and agentic systems — including RAG, agent workflows, model evaluation, and fine-tuning
- Strong command of distributed systems design, including scaling tradeoffs for high-throughput, data-intensive workloads
- Full-stack capability spanning backend, frontend, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience building user-facing, self-serve products with a focus on usability for non-technical audiences
- Deep domain knowledge in one or more of: antibot systems, reverse engineering, JavaScript deobfuscation, or browser automation
- Bias toward action
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Genuine enthusiasm for early-stage startup pace and ownership
- On-site in New York City, NY
- This role requires in-person presence working alongside a tight-knit team
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with web scraping, data extraction, or web automation at scale is a strong plus
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