About this role

ABOUT THE ROLE This is a founding engineering role at a three-person, Y Combinator–backed startup building an AI-native financial research platform for the healthcare sector. The product uses AI agents to continuously transform disparate public and private data sources into always-updated, source-backed industry models for professional investors — think banks, hedge funds, and asset managers. You'll be the third member of a tight-knit technical team based in New York, owning infrastructure, tooling, and the systems that make AI agents reliable and capable at scale.

This is a high-ownership, high-impact role with genuine influence over the product and technical direction from day one. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Work across the entire stack — shipping frontend features, real-time systems, and backend infrastructure. - Build data pipelines and internal tooling that enable analysts to onboard new data sources and maintain sector coverage faster and more reliably. - Improve agentic parsing and extraction systems, making AI agents more capable and reliable in production.

- Own work end to end: inspect data, QA your builds, instrument them, ship them, and fix issues in production. - Day one: integrate a new information source into the platform. - Week one: ship a measurable improvement to the speed or reliability of the agentic systems. - Within 30 days: build a company ontology and ship the first version of a key product feature. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Dealbreakers (must-haves): - 2+ years building, shipping, and operating production systems end-to-end.

- Hands-on experience building and deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production. - Full-stack capability: backend systems, data pipelines, and frontend development. - US citizenship required (no visa sponsorship available). Required skills & experience: - Python backend development with FastAPI or an equivalent web framework. - Data infrastructure and pipeline development (ETL, data modeling, SQL). - TypeScript and React frontend development.

- Database design and optimization with PostgreSQL or a similar relational database. - Production observability, monitoring, and debugging of distributed systems. - AWS cloud infrastructure and deployment. - Experience with real-time data systems and streaming updates. What sets you apart: - Strong judgment about when agents should reason versus when deterministic software is the right call. - Deep ownership mentality — you want responsibility for the whole result, not just your piece.

- Excitement about orchestrating coding agents in parallel. - Comfort operating across unfamiliar infrastructure and scaling problems. Nice to have: - Capital markets, financial research, or investment banking domain experience. - Experience with dbt, MotherDuck, Turbopuffer, or similar modern data tools. - Cloudflare or edge computing infrastructure experience. - Experience building tools and abstractions for AI/ML systems.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS - Salary: $156,000 – $182,000 USD annually - Early-stage equity commensurate with a founding team role - Full-time position LOCATION - On-site in New York, NY — this is not a remote role. - Visa sponsorship is not available; US citizenship is required.

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