Founding Backend Engineer
About The Position
About Trove Trove is developing an AI associate for financial firms - think enterprise search & agents for private equity, hedge funds, and banks Our mission is to deliver associate‑level AGI We’ve raised nearly $10M from Menlo and Khosla Ventures We have strong initial traction - large enterprise contracts and user engagement on par with best-in-class B2B AI applications Why this role? High impact: You’ll shape the product and culture from day one. Expect to dive into unsolved challenges at the Gen AI application frontier – enterprise‑scale data retrieval, autonomous agents, and knowledge graphs. High equity: 0.5%+ equity. $175K - 300K cash. You will own a meaningful piece of the company. High talent density: Be a part of a great founding team in SF. Shivaal Roy (CTO) was a founding engineer at Glean ($100M+ ARR today) and managed the Assistant and Search teams, where he solved similar problems. Danny Goldman (CEO) was a top performer at Bain’s Private Equity group
Requirements
- Track record of extraordinary ability
- 3 - 8 years of software engineering experience
- Excitement to work in person 4 days a week in SF
Nice To Haves
- experience with LLMs
- search and retrieval
- previous work at a financial firm
Responsibilities
- Push the frontier of GenAI applications by delivering human-level capabilities
- Design and build novel knowledge graphs algorithms to power search and retrieval over unstructured and structured firm data
- Collaborate with the top AI labs and elite financial firms to design reliable AI-native systems
Benefits
- High equity: 0.5%+ equity.
- $175K - 300K cash.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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