Founding Software Engineer

RedTech Recruitment Ltd. • New York, NY

10d • $200,000 - $400,000 • Onsite

About The Position

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software Engineer to join a profitable, self-funded technology company building data-driven pricing and trading systems. As the first engineering hire, you will work directly with the founders to develop core platform infrastructure, improve real-time decision-making and turn research into reliable production systems. This role would suit a strong backend or platform engineer who uses AI-assisted development extensively and enjoys seeing their work have a direct commercial impact.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience in backend, systems or platform engineering
• Experience designing, building and operating data-intensive production systems
• Extensive hands-on use of agentic AI development tools and workflows, with clear examples of how these support your day-to-day engineering
• Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to solve complex technical problems
• Strong data intuition, with the ability to use evidence to inform product and commercial decisions
• A track record of rapid career progression and increasing technical responsibility
• Experience within technology companies with strong engineering standards, including successful smaller businesses or teams solving challenging problems
• Comfortable taking ownership, testing ideas and adapting when an approach does not work
• Strong communication skills, including the confidence to challenge decisions constructively
• Able to work from the New York office five days per week
• Able to work in the US without employer visa sponsorship or a visa transfer, neither of which is available for this role

Nice To Haves

• Python proficiency is preferred, although engineers with strong experience in other languages will be considered
• A Computer Science degree from a leading undergraduate program and an interest in live events are beneficial

Responsibilities

• Build and own core platform systems, including pricing, bidding and data infrastructure
• Develop reliable systems that support real-time trading and data-driven decisions
• Turn interactive AI-assisted research processes into continuously running research pipelines
• Build A/B testing frameworks to evaluate and improve pricing models
• Improve bidding system throughput and production performance
• Develop AI-powered tools for operational triage and production incident response
• Implement systems that detect model drift and support ongoing monitoring
• Work directly with the founders to prioritize projects and translate business challenges into practical engineering solutions

Benefits

• The opportunity to join as the first engineering hire, with substantial ownership of core systems and technical decisions
• Technically challenging work across real-time systems, data infrastructure and machine learning, using AI-assisted development workflows
• A competitive base salary and up to 2% equity in a profitable, self-funded business where engineering improvements can deliver measurable commercial results quickly

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior