About the role- Own client engagements end-to-end, from technical discovery and scoping through to production
- Work directly with enterprise clients, translating ambiguous business problems into concrete technical scope
- Ship production AI systems across multiple domains and stacks: agents, LLM workflows, document processing, and the infrastructure that makes them reliable
- Contribute to Friday and the Headstart Platform via patterns, skills, and infrastructure that compound across every engagement
- Raise the bar for the engineers around you through code review, pairing, and shared standards
Your background- 5+ years of engineering experience with a track record of owning systems end-to-end
- Comfortable in client-facing situations, running discovery, earning trust quickly, and shaping what gets built
- Your instincts and standards are contagious and teammates adopt them naturally
- You use AI tools constantly, creatively, and with good judgment about when not to
- Proven full-stack depth: backend services (Python), datastores (SQL/NoSQL), optionally React/Next.js
- Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, or developer productivity infrastructure at scale
- Bonus if you've been a founding engineer or startup early hire, with history building production products from scratch
- Bonus if you're NYC based - we have a loft office in Soho and provide lunch and snacks
Note: Even if you don't meet all the requirements, we still encourage you to apply. This role offers extensive benefits, a base salary of $200,000 USD plus competitive equity compensation, 401k with employer match, fully covered medical, dental, and vision premiums, monthly wellness stipend, free lunch everyday in our NYC office, Citi Bike + pre-tax commuter benefits, and 12 weeks parental leave with an optional 4-week ramp-up at a 50% schedule.
While this position is listed as hybrid in NYC or Toronto, we are open to considering fully remote candidates based in the US or Canada for the right fit.
