Founding Engineering Team

Altis • New York City, NY

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Altis is growing its Founding Engineering team to help drive their product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You'll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help build the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10. The biggest gap you'll be closing on day one: bringing a product mindset to our roadmap that’s deeply tied to speeding up our research processes. New York City - in-person; 4 days a week expected.

Requirements

• A track record of shipping software that is an excellent product that its intended users actually adopted, not just software shipped to spec
• Comfort owning and communicating delivery timelines, including flagging risk before it becomes a surprise
• Strong communication skills with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, including a CEO
• Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally at an early-stage (seed/Series A) startup - rather than a background primarily at a large/big tech company
• Exposure to designing external API or MCP-style developer surfaces
• Comfort evaluating and evolving an existing codebase and architecture built by an early engineering team

Responsibilities

• Help share and own the roadmap and delivery of Altis' internal research-enablement tooling - sit with the research and sourcing teams to understand their real workflows, with a goal of meaningfully cutting the time it takes them to produce a report
• Commit to delivery dates for engineering's key initiatives, hit them, or flag slippage early and clearly
• Partner with our existing engineering team on architecture decisions, including Altis's move toward direct API/MCP access for customers
• Report directly to the CEO as a technical thought partner on product and roadmap tradeoffs
• Stand up the engineering processes (planning, review, ownership) a growing team needs
• Help design and run the technical interview process as the team scales

Benefits

• Competitive cash and equity compensation, commensurate with experience and scope
• A direct reporting line to the CEO and real ownership over key engineering and product decisions.
• A ground-floor seat at a fast-growing, recently-funded research company with early customer traction across venture and institutional investors
• A New York City-based team

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed