About the RoleThis 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 ForDealbreakers (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.
