Engineer, Founding

Polluxa, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. in New York City seeks an early NYC engineer to join a nimble team building GenAI-powered products from the ground up, leveraging Databricks for vertical AI apps.

You will create interfaces for GenAI agents, collaborate with product, design and engineering, and lead hands-on full-stack development to ship end-to-end experiences.

This role combines startup speed with the scale of a tech leader, offering ownership and a chance to shape the future of AI-powered user experiences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Demonstrated product mindset with ability to translate customer problems into MVPs.
• AI features should feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not bolted on.
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, Vue/Ember).
• 5+ years of server-side web technologies (Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go).
• Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products with a strong UI/UX component.
• Experience connecting abstract modeling to business value.

Responsibilities

• Create novel interfaces for GenAI agents managing complex workflows.
• Collaborate with product, design and engineering to build scalable solutions.
• Lead hands-on full-stack development to ship end-to-end experiences.
• Enable onboarding and sharing features to drive product-led growth.
• Direct the future of intuitive AI products with cross-functional teams.
• Establish best practices for AI product development across teams.

Skills

HTML

CSS

JavaScript

GenAI product experience

Product mindset

Ownership and action bias

Tools

Node.js

Python

Java

Scala

C#

Go

Job description

About the Role

As one of the first engineers in the NYC Engineering office, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of a small, nimble team that’s innovating to build new products from the ground up. Our goal is to leverage the power of Databricks in data & AI to deliver vertical AI applications for both technical and business users. This will be a true 0-to-1 environment, combining the excitement of a startup with the resources of a tech leader like Databricks.

The Impact You'll Have

• Create novel, never-seen-before interfaces for GenAI agents that manage complex workflows while keeping the human in the loop through inspectability and transparency
• Partner closely with product management, design, and other engineering teams to build intuitive, scalable, and extensible solutions that drive user & business growth
• Lead by example with hands‑on full-stack software development to create dynamic, user‑centric experiences
• Enable mechanisms that can drive product‑led growth, through seamless onboarding and sharing capabilities
• Direct the future of intuitive agentic applications at Databricks, in collaboration with cross‑functional teams of innovative software engineers, product managers, and designers
• Establish best practices within the team & Databricks more widely for building valuable, AI products

What We Look For

• 5+ years of experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Demonstrated product mindset with the ability to translate ambiguous customer problems into scrappy MVPs and iterate quickly based on data and user feedback.
• You care that AI features feel intuitive, trustworthy, and helpful, not just bolted on to an existing app
• High ownership and bias for action in 0→1 environments: you are comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs, operating with incomplete information, and driving projects from idea through launch and adoption.
• Strong ability to collaborate across product, engineering, and design teams to align technical strategy with company growth objectives.
• Experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, or VueJs/Ember)
• 5+ years of experience with server-side web technologies (e.g., Node.js, Java, Python, Scala, C#, C++, Go)
• Proven experience building and shipping end-to-end generative AI products, ideally with a significant UI/UX component
• Experience in developing deep product and business knowledge to connect abstract modeling and analysis tasks with business value