Founding Software Engineer – Remote (US) with Equity

Rise Talent Advisors; Seattle (WA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Rise Talent Advisors is seeking a founding software engineer to help build a cloud-native platform that extracts data from complex documents and feeds it into enterprise workpapers. You will work mostly on backend systems with some frontend work, making architecture decisions alongside the founders.

Ideal candidates have 2–6 years as software engineers, experience in early-stage ventures, and a CS degree from a top US university with GPA included.

Qualifications

• 2 to 6 years as a software engineer.
• Zero to one experience at an early stage, venture-backed startup, or time as a founding engineer.
• Proficiency in Python and TypeScript.
• Back end architecture decisions you owned, on classic back end systems with large language model features on top.
• Large language model or agent based features you shipped to production.

Responsibilities

• Build the core platform as a generalist, mostly back end with some front end work.
• Make back end architecture decisions on your own, working closely with the founders and engineering leadership.
• Design and build the document extraction and large language model agent pipelines at the center of the product.
• Help ship the next major version of the product, and then help build new products in related workflows.
• Own features from design to production, including how they perform and how they fail in production.
• Turn what customers tell the team into product, often from loosely defined problems.
• Set early engineering practices, tooling and standards that the team will build on as it grows.
• Move with urgency on a small team where everyone owns a lot.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Backend architecture

LLM features

Production deployment

Education

CS degree from a top US university

Include GPA

Job description

Rise Talent Advisors is seeking a founding software engineer to help build a cloud-native platform that extracts data from complex documents and feeds it into enterprise workpapers. You will work mostly on backend systems with some frontend work, making architecture decisions alongside the founders.

Ideal candidates have 2–6 years as software engineers, experience in early-stage ventures, and a CS degree from a top US university with GPA included.