Founding Backend Engineer for AI Regulatory Platform

Signify Technology; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Signify Technology is seeking a Founding Software Engineer in Jersey City, NJ, offering a base salary of $150,000–$180,000 plus equity. This hybrid position gives you direct collaboration with the founders to shape the technical direction, architecture and product.

You will design and build the backend architecture for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform, build ingestion pipelines, and develop AI-powered workflows.

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 is seeking a Founding Software Engineer in Jersey City, NJ, offering a base salary of $150,000–$180,000 plus equity. This hybrid position gives you direct collaboration with the founders to shape the technical direction, architecture and product.

You will design and build the backend architecture for an AI-powered regulatory intelligence platform, build ingestion pipelines, and develop AI-powered workflows.