Founding Engineer - Scend
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Founding Engineer Scend
Who We Are
Scend is on a mission to modernize M&A and bring efficiency to private markets. With a strong team early customers and backing from top investors like Pear VC were positioned for rapid growth.
Youll join a lean highimpact team who share a passion for building beautiful functional products. Our team brings deep expertise across tech and finance: with backgrounds spanning M&A private equity consumer fintech and the Python opensource community.
Our Values (DEAL)
Deliver: Everyone ships code designs features or works directly with customers to turn ideas into products.
Empower: We are more than our job titles. If you see a problem or an opportunity youre empowered to take action.
Align: We solve problems together openly and with humility.
Learn: Were always exploring new ideas tools and ways of working.
The Role
Youll work directly with our founders to shape the product and architecture from the ground up. As an early team member youll have an outsized impact on everything from system design to our engineering culture. While prior experience is not required a background or interest in LLMs and Machine Learning is a big plus.
Responsibilities
Design & Build: Architect scalable highperformance APIs to serve financial data and turn them into product features
AIPowered Systems: Generate datasets and research reports using LLMs; applying evals and finetuning to drive accuracy
Data Processing: Process large datasets using Airflow Pandas and Spark
Web Crawling: Develop highscale systems for crawling sites and docs from the web
Infrastructure: Manage infrastructure with Terraform Docker AWS ECS and monitoring tools like Sentry and CloudWatch
Requirements
2 years building scalable software systems
Expertise in Python and SQL
Plus: Comfortable with data processing frameworks (Airflow Pandas Spark)
Plus: Familiarity with infra automation tools (Terraform Docker)
Plus: Background in LLM systems and Machine Learning
Perks & Benefits
*If youd like to add a perk let us know! As a founding team member youll play a key role in shaping our culture.
Competitive Compensation & Equity: Youll have a meaningful stake in our success.
Healthcare: Comprehensive medical dental and vision coverage.
Flexible Environment: Were based in NYC and value inperson collaboration but were open to remote arrangements for exceptional talent
Early Team Influence: Your input will shape our product culture and future.
Growth & Culture: We invest in your growth (courses books conferences) and regularly host team events offsites and socials to build our team culture.
Unlimited PTO
Employment Type
Full-Time
