Founding AI Software Engineer — Regulatory Intelligence

Signify Technology; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Signify Technology seeks a Founding Software Engineer to lead backend design for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform in Jersey City, NJ. You will own production systems and shape architecture, with responsibilities spanning data ingestion, AI-driven workflows, and API surfaces.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines, handling large geospatial datasets, and delivering explainable knowledge from regulatory documents, while collaborating closely with founders on technical

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience with significant ownership of production systems.
• Strong experience designing and building search systems.
• Experience working with GraphQL and REST APIs.
• Experience building AI agents, agentic workflows or LLM-powered automation systems using technologies such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants/Responses API or similar.
• Strong Python development experience and experience with modern Python frameworks.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and relational databases.
• Comfortable working with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the backend architecture for a complex AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform.
• Build pipelines that discover, ingest, classify and monitor regulatory changes across federal, state and local governments.
• Develop structured permitting workflows that translate regulations into clear requirements, decision points and permit pathways.
• Build AI and LLM-powered workflows that extract structured, explainable knowledge from complex regulatory documents.
• Design APIs and services connecting regulatory intelligence with mapping and workflow products.
• Build systems capable of processing large-scale geospatial and regulatory datasets efficiently.
• Develop search, retrieval and knowledge representation systems.
• Make key architecture and technology decisions across the platform.

Job description

Signify Technology seeks a Founding Software Engineer to lead backend design for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform in Jersey City, NJ. You will own production systems and shape architecture, with responsibilities spanning data ingestion, AI-driven workflows, and API surfaces.

The role emphasizes building scalable pipelines, handling large geospatial datasets, and delivering explainable knowledge from regulatory documents, while collaborating closely with founders on technical