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About the Role
Join an early-stage AI company building an automated growth platform for consumer brands. As a founding senior engineer, you will build core product and infrastructure while helping shape the engineering culture and technical direction.
What You'll Do
Build data infrastructure that tracks merchant lifecycle events and helps identify which actions lead to business outcomes.
Develop an agentic growth system that evaluates operations, recommends changes, and executes them automatically.
Own full-stack engineering for the growth platform, with a strong focus on backend systems and infrastructure.
Build and maintain reliable integrations with commerce, advertising, and marketing platforms, along with orchestration tools.
Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on in daily product development.
What We're Looking For
Five to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, including substantial backend work with data infrastructure, event systems, and API integrations.
Experience building and owning production agentic or LLM-powered systems that integrate with third-party APIs.
Experience with Python, TypeScript, LLMs, and commerce or marketing integrations such as Shopify, advertising APIs, or email platforms.
Experience leading or mentoring engineers, and the ability to create structure and prioritize in an ambiguous environment.
Early-stage startup or founding engineering experience, or experience contributing at a growing startup.
Strong communication skills and a track record of sustained contributions in engineering roles.
Compensation & Benefits
Base salary: $175,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Equity details were not provided.
Location
On-site in New York, New York, United States.
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