Founding Engineer (DreamLever) - NY

Scope•New York City, NY

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

DreamLever is an AI system that learns a business through meeting conversations, connects activity across people, teams, and goals, and uses AI agents to move work forward. Its product is live with paying customers. The company is building an in-house engineering team with support from Scope Labs, an external engineering partner familiar with the existing system. As DreamLever’s first in-house engineer, you will lead technical execution on a live, customer-facing product. This hands-on leadership role involves writing code daily, making engineering decisions, and turning product priorities, founder direction, prototypes, and feedback into polished software. You will own technical execution, coordinate work with the founder and Scope Labs, decide what to build directly or delegate, and oversee delivery against product goals. You will also improve Miles, DreamLever’s AI Chief of Staff agent, by developing its use of company context, evaluating its outputs, investigating failures, and improving usefulness and reliability. The role calls for strong full-stack engineering, product judgment, UI/UX instincts, effective use of coding agents, and dependable delivery in an early-stage company. New York City is preferred, and remote US-based candidates will also be considered. Base salary is $170,000 to $200,000, depending on experience and demonstrated ability. The role includes meaningful equity vesting over four years. Must be able to perform all essential functions of the position with reasonable accommodation. DreamLever is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Requirements

Approximately 3–7 years of experience building and shipping production software, with meaningful ownership of features or systems from implementation through release.
Strong full-stack engineering skills, including experience with APIs, integrations, asynchronous workflows, and data consistency.
Demonstrated ability to learn, extend, and improve an existing production codebase.
Hands-on experience shipping LLM-enabled features and using AI coding agents to accelerate development.
Strong computer-science fundamentals, acquired through formal study or practical experience.
Experience working directly with founders, product leaders, or other non-engineering stakeholders to turn product priorities into shipped software.
Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical trade-offs to technical and non-technical collaborators.
Must be based in the United States.
Experience and proficiency with TypeScript, Next.js, React, Postgres, and Supabase.
Able to perform all essential functions of the position with reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Having started something of your own or been one of the first engineers at a small company.
Experience building agentic workflows and long-running tasks.
New York City area location is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Ship high-impact product improvements quickly and build across the full stack, using coding agents effectively and shipping well-tested code.
Translate founder direction, design prototypes, and detailed feedback into working software; resolve gaps and edge cases and verify the intended customer outcome.
Learn the existing architecture, integrations, data flows, and technical risks to make sound decisions and build on the live codebase.
Improve Miles, DreamLever’s AI Chief of Staff agent, by developing its use of company context, evaluating outputs, investigating failures, and improving usefulness and reliability.
Break priorities into clear work, make realistic commitments, and communicate risks early.
Direct and review work delegated to Scope Labs and maintain quality and delivery dates across the development team.
Contribute practical product ideas and apply UI/UX judgment to improve the customer experience.
Maintain organized code, consistent naming, and useful documentation; improve testing, observability, and deployment where they make development faster and safer.