Founding AI Software Engineer — NYC Startup, Equity

Alldus; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary: $150K - $225K

Equity

Job summary

Alldus is hiring a Founding Software Engineer for a fast-growing AI startup in New York's hospitality sector. You will help shape the product roadmap, work with customers and lead feature development from idea to launch.

You'll build end-to-end features across backend systems, AI agents, and customer-facing React apps, while designing scalable infrastructure and data pipelines. You will collaborate closely with customers to translate feedback into practical product improvements and help set

Qualifications

• Expertise in LLM and agentic applications across backend, data systems and React product development.
• Proficiency in Python or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience deploying production AI agents with tool execution and context management.
• Ability to compare AI models and providers and understand architectural trade-offs.
• Experience building and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Strong data engineering for APIs, integrations, pipelines and data stores.
• Track record of delivering substantial software with clear explanations of decisions.
• Discipline in readable code, version control, testing and debugging.
• Product-focused, proactive, customer-facing in an early-stage setting.

Responsibilities

• Build and launch end-to-end features across backend systems, AI agents and customer-facing React applications.
• Develop the infrastructure supporting agent context, tool use, orchestration, persistent state and human approvals.
• Create APIs, integrations and data pipelines linking point-of-sale, accounting, payroll and other operational platforms.
• Convert invoices, recipes, supplier catalogues and stock records into accurate, structured data.
• Evaluate agents against real customer workflows, diagnose failures and strengthen recovery and escalation processes.
• Use production results to assess models and providers, improving accuracy, completion rates, response times and cost efficiency.
• Collaborate with customers to understand day-to-day challenges and turn their feedback into practical product enhancements.
• Help shape product priorities, system architecture and strategic decisions as an early member of the engineering team.

Skills

LLM and agentic apps

Python/JS/TS

AI agents deployment

Model evaluation

Cloud platforms

Data engineering

Software craftsmanship

Testing & debugging

Customer-facing delivery

Job description

Alldus is hiring a Founding Software Engineer for a fast-growing AI startup in New York's hospitality sector. You will help shape the product roadmap, work with customers and lead feature development from idea to launch.

You'll build end-to-end features across backend systems, AI agents, and customer-facing React apps, while designing scalable infrastructure and data pipelines. You will collaborate closely with customers to translate feedback into practical product improvements and help set