Founding Engineering Lead

Alt; New York (NY); In loco; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Equity compensation

Direct CEO reporting

New York City team

Descrizione del lavoro

Altis is building its Founding Engineering team in New York City, aiming to scale from 2 to around 10 engineers. The role reports to the CEO and focuses on shipping a product-minded roadmap tied to speeding up research processes.

You will collaborate with the existing engineering team on architecture decisions and build the processes necessary for a growing, early-stage startup. In-person, 4 days a week in NYC.

Competenze

• A track record of shipping software that is adopted by users, not just shipped to spec.
• Ability to own and communicate delivery timelines, flagging risks early.
• Strong communication with technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, including leadership.
• Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products.

Mansioni

• Own the roadmap and delivery of internal tooling for research enablement.
• Commit to engineering delivery dates and flag slippage early.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions including API access for customers.
• Report to the CEO as a technical thought partner on product/roadmap tradeoffs.
• Establish engineering processes as the team scales.
• Help design and run the technical interview process as the team grows.

Conoscenze

Product leadership

Delivery planning

Communication

AI-native products

Strumenti

API design

LLM integration

Descrizione del lavoro

Founding Engineering Lead

About Altis

Altis provides independent, institutional-grade diligence research on Series A and later-stage companies for venture investors. Private investors are beginning to rely on the proprietary research, experts, and data that is only available on the Altis platform. The team pairs MBB-caliber diligence training with advanced AI to create high-quality work faster and at a lower cost than traditional methods.

About the Role

Altis is growing their Founding Engineering team to help drive their product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You'll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help build the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10. The biggest gap you'll be closing on day one: bringing a product mindset to our roadmap that’s deeply tied to speeding up our research processes.

New York City - in-person; 4 days a week expected.

What You'll Do

• Help share and own the roadmap and delivery of Altis' internal research-enablement tooling - sit with the research and sourcing teams to understand their real workflows, with a goal of meaningfully cutting the time it takes them to produce a report
• Commit to delivery dates for engineering's key initiatives, hit them, or flag slippage early and clearly
• Partner with our existing engineering team on architecture decisions, including Altis's move toward direct API/MCP access for customers
• Report directly to the CEO as a technical thought partner on product and roadmap tradeoffs
• Stand up the engineering processes (planning, review, ownership) a growing team needs
• Help design and run the technical interview process as the team scales

What You Bring

• A track record of shipping software that is an excellent product that its intended users actually adopted, not just software shipped to spec
• Comfort owning and communicating delivery timelines, including flagging risk before it becomes a surprise
• Strong communication skills with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, including a CEO
• Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products

Nice to Haves

• Experience leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally at an early-stage (seed/Series A) startup - rather than a background primarily at a large/big tech company
• Exposure to designing external API or MCP-style developer surfaces
• Comfort evaluating and evolving an existing codebase and architecture built by an early engineering team

What You'll Get

• Competitive cash and equity compensation, commensurate with experience and scope
• A direct reporting line to the CEO and real ownership over key engineering and product decisions.
• A ground-floor seat at a fast-growing, recently-funded research company with early customer traction across venture and institutional investors
• A New York City-based team

What We Value

We believe confident nonsense is worse than honest ambiguity. Altis operates with the same rigor and transparency in how we build our own tools as we do in the research we sell - full ownership, clear communication, and no shortcuts on the truth.