Founding Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Founding Engineer (first engineering hire)

• Reports to: Founder & CEO

• Work setup: NYC office 3–4 days/week; occasional travel for key conferences

Description

Own the platform end to end—matching engine, attendee-facing front end for on-site events, and enterprise tooling for organizers and marketing teams. Bring the product in-house from an outsourced team, set the technical direction, and ship quickly with AI at the core of your workflow. Ensure the platform remains fast and stable during live conferences while iterating on match quality through analytics and testing.

Responsibilities

• Build across the stack: frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure

• Serve two audiences: polished attendee experience and reliable enterprise tooling

• Ship for live events: maintain performance and stability during conferences

• Build the matching engine: matching/recommendation models, ranking, and continuous improvements

• Drive data analysis and testing: measure match quality and engagement; build analytics dashboards and admin capabilities

• In-source engineering: take over the existing codebase and move fully in-house within the first few months

• Establish scalable foundations: choose architecture, tooling, practices, and help guide hiring as the team grows

• Use AI across the engineering workflow to accelerate shipping

• Shape the product: turn customer feedback into roadmap priorities; handle any technical problem needed to move the company forward

Requirements

• 4+ years of full-stack software engineering experience; ML experience is a plus

• Experience building both consumer-facing applications and enterprise software

• Proficiency using AI tools to build, test, and scale quickly

• Demonstrated ownership from architecture through deployment and monitoring with minimal support

• Comfort transitioning work from an outsourced team by taking over an existing codebase

• Scrappy mindset and comfort with ambiguity in an early-stage startup

• Ability to commute to the NYC office 3–4 days per week

Benefits

• Work directly with the Founder/CEO as a core founding-team member

• Real ownership with a fast track to executive leadership

• Build the company’s technical foundation from day one

• Competitive salary and meaningful early-employee equity