Senior Software Engineer

New York City, NY - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 1 hour ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack Backend-Leaning)

NYC (Hybrid) Strong Base Salary Competitive Equity
Seed-stage Real-world systems

Our client is an early-stage venture-backed startup rebuilding critical operational infrastructure in a large overlooked industry. The problems are messy workflow-heavy and high-trust. The software matters.

The Stack

React TypeScript
Postgres
AWS (Lambda Fargate S3 Cognito)
Terraform
GitHub Actions
Datadog

We ship fast but we care about system design.

The Role

Youll:

Build and own end-to-end features
Design APIs and data models that wont collapse in 18 months
Make architectural decisions alongside the founders
Integrate AI into real production workflows (not just demos)
Improve reliability and observability
Help define engineering culture early

Youll have meaningful input into:

How we structure services
How we deploy
How we use AI internally and in-product
What good looks like for engineering quality

What Were Looking For

58 years experience shipping production software
Strong backend fundamentals
Experience owning systems not just components
Good product instincts
Comfortable with ambiguity

Bonus:

Experience in regulated / operationally complex environments
Experience integrating LLMs into real workflows
Early-stage startup experience

What This Is

Small team (single-digit engineers)
High ownership
Direct founder collaboration
Product with real-world constraints
Infrastructure that must work

What This Isnt

A 50-engineer org with heavy process
Feature factory work
Pure ML research

Hybrid NYC (23 days in person)

If you like building durable systems in complex environments and want real ownership early email us with a short intro and links to things youve built.

If you need a confidential discussion or further information DM me here

Senior Software Engineer (Full-Stack Backend-Leaning) NYC (Hybrid) Strong Base Salary Competitive Equity Seed-stage Real-world systems Our client is an early-stage venture-backed startup rebuilding critical operational infrastructure in a large overlooked industry. The problems are messy workflow-...