Founding Engineer

Wwshemi; Northern (KY); On-site; USD 156,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Wwshemi in New York City is seeking a Founding Engineer to build infrastructure, data pipelines, and AI-enabled research tools for global economy coverage, starting with healthcare. You will ship features across the frontend, backend, and real-time systems, and own end-to-end work from data QA through production releases.

The role requires hands-on Python backend with FastAPI, plus TypeScript and React, ETL, SQL, and AWS experience.

Qualifications

• 2+ years building and operating production systems.
• Experience deploying agentic AI or LLM-based applications in production.
• Full-stack capability with backend/data infrastructure or applied AI.

Responsibilities

• Ship features across frontend, backend, and real-time systems.
• Build data pipelines and tools for data sources and industry coverage.
• Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems for complex research tasks.
• Own end-to-end work from data QA to instrumentation and production releases.
• Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.

Skills

Python backend with FastAPI

TypeScript

React

ETL

SQL

Data modeling

Production monitoring

AWS

Edge infrastructure

Tools

FastAPI

AWS

Job description

About the Role

Join an early-stage team building an AI-powered, source-backed model of the global economy, beginning with healthcare. As a Founding Engineer, you will build the infrastructure, tools, and systems that help AI agents turn diverse data sources into reliable, continuously updated industry research.

What You'll Do

• Ship features across the frontend, backend infrastructure, and real-time systems.
• Build data pipelines and tools that help analysts add sources and maintain industry coverage reliably.
• Improve agent-based parsing and extraction systems, including how they handle complex research tasks.
• Own work end to end, from data inspection and quality assurance through instrumentation, production releases, and debugging.
• Develop a company ontology and an initial earnings research product.

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of experience building, shipping, and operating production systems, with approximately 7 years or less of professional experience.
• Hands-on experience deploying agentic AI systems or LLM-based applications in production, and sound judgment about when to use AI reasoning versus deterministic software.
• Full-stack capability, with depth in at least one area such as backend engineering, data infrastructure, applied AI, or product engineering.
• Python backend experience with FastAPI or an equivalent framework, plus TypeScript and React.
• Experience with ETL, data modeling, SQL, relational database design and optimization, and production monitoring and debugging.
• Familiarity with AWS, real-time data systems, and streaming updates; experience with modern data tools or edge infrastructure is a plus.
• Experience in software engineering at an investment firm, including recent AI project work, is required. Capital markets, financial research, or investment banking experience is a plus.
• Must be a U.S. citizen and able to work on-site in New York City five days per week, either locally or after relocating.

Compensation & Benefits

Salary: $156,000 to $182,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. Equity and other benefits were not specified.

Location

On-site in New York City, New York, five days per week.