Founding Engineer

Join a small engineering team at a profitable bootstrapped fintech platform focused on live event ticket trading. As the first engineering hire you will build core systems where improvements to pricing and operations can have a direct business impact.

• Build and own the pricing engine bidding system and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
• Turn interactive model research into continuously running AI research pipelines.
• Develop A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput.
• Create AI-powered tools for operational triage production incident response and model drift detection.

• Three to ten years of post-graduate software engineering experience with a record of strong performance and career growth.
• Experience building and operating platform or data-intensive production systems ideally using Python.
• Strong adoption of agentic AI workflows and familiarity with AI/ML data pipelines real-time systems and classical machine learning.
• Good data intuition including the ability to use evidence to inform pricing or product decisions.
• Sound engineering judgment comfort challenging decisions and experience taking professional risks and learning from setbacks.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and an interest in live events such as concerts or sports.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Base salary is $200000 to $400000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

This is an on-site role in New York New York United States.