Founding Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: New York City
Employment Type: FullTime
TL;DR: We're looking for founding engineers to help us reinvent technical interviewing and transform how the $600B+ staffing industry operates.
About Ropes
Ropes is building a new way for companies to hire talent - starting with a fundamentally better technical interview. We help staffing and recruiting firms fight fraud, identify top talent, and confidently market that talent to Fortune 500 companies and the best employers in the world.
Company highlights:
Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 8 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics
Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, etc.
Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with dozens of enterprise staffing customers - including the largest staffing firm in the world
Market opportunity: Our customers are the premier firms of the $600B+ staffing industry. We're working to reinvent how that market operates from the ground up
What You'll Do:
Define the new standard of technical interviewing that retires LeetCode and transforms how companies evaluate talent
Use AI to detect fraud, identify patterns in candidate performance, and accelerate the hiring process
Who You Are:
You want to solve problems end-to-end and own what you build
You're proficient in modern full-stack development (React, Node.js, Python, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
You're highly technical with strong coding fundamentals and a bias toward quality
You're comfortable in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment
Why Ropes:
Early impact: Join at the exact inflection point—past product-market fit, before scaling takes over
Ownership: As one of the first engineering hires, you'll shape technical decisions and own critical systems
This is an on-site role in New York City - designed for builders who want to change how the world hires talent.
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