Founding Engineer - Build AI-Driven Hiring Tech (NYC)

Ropes AI, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ropes AI, Inc. in New York City is seeking founding engineers to build human-focused security tech and reinvent skill-based interviewing.

You’ll own features end-to-end, shape architecture, and ship in a fast-moving startup. You will use modern full-stack skills (React, Node.js, Python) and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure) to detect fraud and accelerate hiring, with strong coding fundamentals and a bias toward quality.

Qualifications

• Proficient in modern full-stack development with emphasis on scalable architectures.
• Strong coding fundamentals and bias toward quality.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving startup environment.

Responsibilities

• Define the new standard of technical interviewing that retires LeetCode and transforms how companies evaluate talent.
• Use AI to detect fraud, identify patterns in candidate performance, and accelerate the hiring process.

Skills

Full-stack development

React

Node.js

Python

Cloud infrastructure

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

TL;DR: We're looking for founding engineers to help us build human-focused security tech, reinvent skill-based interviewing, and transform how the the $4T+ contingent workforce industry operates

About Ropes

Ropes is building anti-fraud technology for hiring. DPRK operatives, fake candidates, proxy interviews, and AI-assisted cheating are now common in the contingent labor market. We help staffing, services, and the F500 catch them before they get hired and monitor them after they start their jobs.

Company highlights:

• Talent-dense, capable team: We're a team of 14 from Penn, Stanford, Waterloo, Retool, MongoDB, and top tech companies with seed-stage headcount and Series A-type metrics

• Well-capitalized: $3.1M seed round led by GSV Ventures & Boxgroup with angels from OpenAI, SpaceX, Retool, and more

• Traction: We've flown past 7 figures in revenue, with hundreds of customers - including the largest staffing firm in the world and multiple large enterprises

• Market opportunity: Our customers are both the suppliers of short-term "contingent" labor and the buyers of that labor. We're working to reinvent how both sides of this market identifies and allocates quality talent from the ground up.

What You'll Do:

• Define the new standard of technical interviewing that retires LeetCode and transforms how companies evaluate talent

• Use AI to detect fraud, identify patterns in candidate performance, and accelerate the hiring process

Who You Are:

• You want to solve problems end-to-end and own what you build

• You're proficient in modern full-stack development (React, Node.js, Python, or similar) and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• You're highly technical with strong coding fundamentals and a bias toward quality

• You're comfortable in a fast-moving, high-performance startup environment

Why Ropes:

• Early impact: Join at the exact inflection point—past product-market fit, before scaling takes over

• Ownership: As one of the first engineering hires, you'll shape technical decisions and own critical systems

This is an on-site role in New York City - designed for builders who want to change how the world hires talent.