Founding software engineer 2025

Location: Flatiron, Manhattan, NYC Type: Full-time, in-person (6-day weeks) Why Besty AI? Besty is building the AI brain for the $120B hotel and short‑term‑rental industry. In <2 years we've: * Shipped a product loved by hundreds of paying hosts (30 % MoM revenue growth) * Raised over $4M from the heads of the Stanford & Berkeley AI labs and investors behind Discord, Fastly, Hugging Face, Covariant, and Replicate * Stayed small: you'll be one of our first five engineering hires and shape the culture for years Responsibilities * Own & ship features end‑to‑end -from whiteboard to production-across backend (Node + Postgres) and a React frontend * Stand up new PMS integrations and latency/uptime targets as we scale from thousands to millions of API calls per day * Pair with customers to surface pain points and ship fixes in hours * Prototype AI workflows that automate messaging, dynamic pricing, and ops for hosts You Might Be a Fit If * You've built impressive solo or side projects * Hungry, curious, and comfortable with minimal structure-maybe you've founded (or plan to found) something yourself * You bias for shipping: fast feedback, tight loops * Strong fundamentals in at least one backend language (TypeScript, Go, Rust, Python, etc.) and willingness to learn the rest fast * Thrive in high‑intensity environments What We Offer * High ownership → direct line to product decisions & customers * Ideal experience to found your own company or lead an engineering team * Competitive equity and salary + full benefits * One‑on‑one mentorship from Aarlo Stone Fish (20 yrs building & scaling SaaS) * Fully in-person office in Flatiron, Manhattan