Founding Engineer

Department: Engineering

Location: New York

Employment Type: FullTime

About the Role

This is a founding engineering role at an early-stage data infrastructure startup, working directly with the CTO to build core systems for extracting, analyzing, and visualizing web data at scale. You'll own large, meaningful pieces of the product — from autonomous agents to distributed backend services — powering enterprise customers who depend on structured, real-world web data every day.

What You'll Do

• Build autonomous agents that tackle real-world information extraction problems across diverse and unpredictable web environments.

• Design and iterate on a full-stack, self-serve application that makes complex workflows intuitive for non-technical users.

• Maintain and scale backend architecture to reliably handle thousands of requests per second and tens of millions of rows of data daily.

• Contribute across the entire stack — infrastructure as code, ML pipelines, website updates, and whatever else moves the team forward fastest.

What We're Looking For

• 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.

• Familiarity with web scraping, data extraction, or web automation at scale is a strong plus.

• Bias toward action, comfort with ambiguity, and genuine enthusiasm for early-stage startup pace and ownership.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary range: $170,000–$220,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available.

Location

On-site in New York City, NY. This role requires in-person presence working alongside a tight-knit team.