Founding Engineer, June

securevision; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Job summary

SecureVision is seeking a Founding Engineer (Lead/Staff) to own technical delivery and architecture for the AI-assisted hiring platform. You’ll work hands-on in the backend, fix urgent customer issues, and raise reliability, security, and design as we scale.

The role focuses on building an enterprise-ready backend stack with Python/FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, and GCP, while mentoring the team and shaping product engineering for AI workflows. Equity is negotiable and impact is immediate.

Qualifications

• Experience as tech lead or founding engineer on a product team.
• Strong Python backend skills and relational DB design.
• Proven ability to ship and operate production systems under pressure.
• Hands-on GCP experience including IAM and App Engine.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & technical leadership: Define and evolve the system architecture and data model.
• Customer-critical firefighting: Diagnose and fix production and integration issues.
• Backend ownership: Ship and refactor core APIs and workflows in Python/FastAPI with Postgres/Redis.
• Cloud & platform engineering: Operate in GCP and improve deployment confidence.
• Security & compliance mindset: Apply defaults for secrets handling and access control.
• Mentorship: Raise the bar with reviews, patterns, and lightweight docs.
• Applied AI product engineering: Design and iterate on LLM-powered workflows.
• AI Ops in production: Monitor, detect regressions, and ensure safety for AI paths.

Skills

Python Backend

FastAPI

Relational DBs

GCP

System Architecture

Leadership

REST APIs

AI Integration

Tools

Postgres

Redis

Cloud IAM

Job description

Founding Engineer (Lead / Staff-level) — June

About the role

SecureVision Embedded RPO is posting this job for June. June is hiring a 10x Founding Engineer to own technical delivery and architecture for our AI-assisted hiring platform. You’ll work hands-on in the backend, partner closely with product, and be the person who clears urgent customer issues in messy real-world environments while raising the bar on reliability, security, and design as we scale.

June is at an early and critical stage, onboarding several enterprise customers, and we will start fundraising for our Seed round in the next few months. We are looking for a Founding Engineer with a strong entrepreneurial desire to make an impact at the ground level and build a category defining product.

What are we building?

AI Interviewer

Why are we building it?

June's AI interviewer helps recruiters eliminate top-of-funnel bottlenecks by automatically screening all inbound applicants. The number of inbound applicants has increased 2x in recent years, and recruiting teams are running leaner than ever. They aren't able to review 1000s of resumes and are missing out on hires from inbound channels. June maximizes inbound ROI and candidate experience, while enabling recruiting teams to reallocate capacity to strategic efforts - often eliminating 40+ hours of administrative work per month per recruiter.

Compensation

A strong equity position is negotiable.

What you’ll do

• Architecture & technical leadership: Define and evolve the system architecture (services, data model, integrations, async work, observability). Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and durability for an early-stage company.
• Customer-critical firefighting: Diagnose and fix production and integration issues (ATS sync, telephony/messaging, AI pipelines, auth, cloud networking). Turn incidents into lasting fixes (runbooks, tests, monitoring).
• Backend ownership: Ship and refactor core APIs and workflows in Python/FastAPI, Postgres, Redis, background jobs/tasks, with strong attention to correctness, performance, and maintainability.
• Cloud & platform engineering: Operate comfortably in GCP (e.g., App Engine, Cloud SQL, IAM, secrets, queues). Improve deployment confidence, cost awareness, and operational hygiene.
• Security & compliance mindset: Apply sound defaults for secrets handling, access control, data handling, and vendor integrations; partner on customer security reviews when needed.
• Mentorship: Raise the bar for the whole team—reviews, patterns, and lightweight documentation that speed everyone up.
• Applied AI product engineering: Design and iterate on LLM-powered workflows (prompting, tooling, evaluation harnesses, guardrails, cost/latency tradeoffs) so AI features are reliable in production, not just impressive in demos.
• AI Ops in production: Own monitoring, regression detection, and safety for AI paths—structured logging around model calls, failure modes, retries/timeouts, versioning of prompts/agents, and measurable quality over time (evals, sampling, human-in-the-loop where appropriate).

What we’re looking for

• Experience as tech lead / staff / principal or founding engineer on a product team.
• Strong Python backend skills and deep comfort with relational databases (schema design, migrations, query performance, transactions).
• Proven track record shipping and operating production systems; calm under pressure when customers are blocked.
• Hands-on GCP (or comparable cloud) experience: IAM, networking basics, managed databases, secrets, observability.
• Interest or experience in integrations (REST APIs, webhooks, ATS/recruiting tools a plus), real-time/voice/SMS stacks a plus.
• Clear communication with non-engineers (customers, leadership) when diagnosing issues and scoping fixes.

Nice to have

• Experience with Firebase Auth, Twilio, OpenAI/LLM products, vector search, or multi-tenant SaaS.
• Prior exposure to security questionnaires, SOC2 controls, or privacy-conscious design for HR/recruiting data.