Founding Data & AI Engineer - Backend Pipelines (NYC)

RiseMe; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Pennant in New York City is hiring a founding engineer to build and own data systems that power its governance software. This is a backend- and data-intensive applied AI role, working on ingestion, extraction, and versioned evidence in production.

You will design data models, implement reliable pipelines with safety for retries and reprocessing, and collaborate with founders and domain experts to ship robust, auditable outputs.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering, SQL and Postgres fundamentals.
• Experience operating production services or data pipelines.
• Practical experience turning messy source data into structured information.

Responsibilities

• Build and own ingestion and extraction pipelines for public filings, external feeds and customer documents.
• Design data models for entities and relationships; preserve source evidence and version history.
• Build evaluations with human-reviewed reference cases; measure completeness and errors.
• Provide reliable services for research, policy application and recommendations; enable safe reprocessing.
• Protect customer information and maintain tenant boundaries across ingestion and processing.
• Operate and monitor services; manage costs and ensure reliable releases.

Skills

Backend engineering

SQL

Postgres

Asynchronous processing

Distributed processing

Data pipelines

TypeScript

Go

BigQuery

Tools

NestJS

Go services

Postgres

BigQuery

Job description

Pennant in New York City is hiring a founding engineer to build and own data systems that power its governance software. This is a backend- and data-intensive applied AI role, working on ingestion, extraction, and versioned evidence in production.

You will design data models, implement reliable pipelines with safety for retries and reprocessing, and collaborate with founders and domain experts to ship robust, auditable outputs.