Member of Technical Staff Atlas

Company: Basis
Location: New York NY (Flatiron office in person 5 days per week)
Compensation: $150000 - $300000 highly competitive equity
Employment Type: Full-time
Visa Sponsorship: Visa transfers (OPT H-1B transfer)

Basis started from the belief that AI agents would become integral to knowledge work and that accounting (structured high-stakes and essential to every business) would be among the first domains transformed. Three years in Basis can complete a partnership tax workbook end to end and accountants use it daily to create complex journal entries and debug reconciliations with capabilities improving every month.

Basis has raised a $140M Series B.

Basis is hiring full-stack and agent engineers for Atlas its internal agent team with one mandate: make every employee dramatically more productive. Atlas is a group of builders former founders and engineers who embed directly with Basis teams to build intelligence into their workflows. It has already shipped agent teammates that push code to production systems that keep company knowledge current automatically and services that diagnose and repair themselves. The goal is zero-human loops that handle entire jobs end to end.

• Build agent systems that do real work inside Basis: coding agents knowledge systems and self-healing services.
• Design context architecture: define sources of truth and make company knowledge navigable for agents and people.
• Embed with internal teams to understand their workflows and data then build agents that take over entire jobs.
• Invent new infrastructure interfaces and operating models for humans and agents working together.
• Own outcomes as the single Responsible Party for your projects.

• 5-15 years building 0-to-1 products as a full-stack engineer
• Experience as a founder founding engineer or engineer at a fast-paced startup (seed to Series D) with high ownership
• Deeply AI-native: builds agents has opinions on which models suit which use cases
• Expertise in one full-stack language with a product mindset
• Hands-on with agent SDKs and LLM tooling beyond basic chatbots
• Product management instincts and comfort with ambiguity
• Strong tenures (2 years per company) and career progression
• Ability to work in person in New York 5 days a week

• Ambition to found a company in the future
• Undergraduate degree from a top global university

Unlimited coding-agent token budget for every engineer.

Initial screening meet-the-team call technical coding interview onsite plus references.

TypeScript Python AI agents infrastructure

REVENUE: 22.5% of first-year salary. Est. fee per hire $34K-$68K; 3 seat(s) up to $152K if all filled.

TARGET COMPANIES (suggested): Ramp Retool Vercel Replit Linear YC founding engineers Notion.

BEST-FIT CANDIDATE: 5-15 (client says 5-10) yrs; production agent building end to end; founder/founding-engineer 0-to-1 ownership; long tenures; visa: transfers only; location: NYC 5 days. Avoid big-tech-only without startup/side projects non-VC-backed startups multiple <1.5yr tenures.