Founding Senior Engineer

About the Role

Join an early-stage AI company building an intelligent growth platform for consumer brands. As a hands-on player-coach, you will build core product and infrastructure while helping shape the engineering culture and architecture.

What You'll Do

• Build data infrastructure that tracks merchant lifecycle events and helps identify which actions drive outcomes.

• Develop an agentic growth system that evaluates operations, recommends changes, and executes them automatically.

• Own full-stack development of the growth engine, with a strong focus on backend systems and infrastructure.

• Build and maintain reliable integrations with commerce, advertising, and marketing platforms.

• Mentor engineers while remaining hands-on with daily product development.

What We're Looking For

• Five to eight years of full-stack engineering experience, including substantial backend work.

• Experience building production-grade LLM-powered or agentic systems with third-party API integrations and end-to-end ownership.

• Strong experience with data infrastructure, event systems, and APIs.

• Familiarity 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 prioritize effectively and create structure in ambiguous environments.

• Early-stage startup or 0-to-1 product-building experience, or experience contributing at a growing startup.

• Strong communication skills and a record of sustained contributions in prior roles.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $175,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York, New York.