Founding Engineering Team

Altis; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Job summary

Altis is building its Founding Engineering team in New York City to speed up research workflows and deliver AI-native, high-impact tooling. You’ll own product roadmaps, work with the CEO, and scale the engineering function from a seed team toward a larger organization.

The role emphasizes shipping usable software, aligning delivery with business goals, and shaping architecture for API access and data-driven research. NYC presence is expected four days a week.

Qualifications

• Shipping software that users actually adopt.
• Ability to commit to delivery timelines and flag risks.
• Strong communication with technical peers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap and delivery of internal research-enablement tooling.
• Meet delivery dates or flag slippage early and clearly.
• Collaborate on architecture decisions, incl. API/MCP access for customers.
• Report to CEO as a technical thought partner on product choices.
• Establish engineering processes for a growing team.

Skills

Shipping software

Delivery timelines

Stakeholder communication

AI-native products

Tools

External API design

MCP-style developer surfaces

Job description

Founding Engineering Team

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.