Founding Software Engineer — Ryvn

davidjoseph-co; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

davidjoseph-co is seeking a Founding Software Engineer in New York, NY, to design and build distributed systems for mission-critical software deployments. You will work with the founding team to shape the technical direction and architecture of the systems while ensuring software reliability.

The ideal candidate has at least 1 year of experience in full-stack or backend development, proficient in technologies like Kubernetes and cloud systems. The role offers a competitive salary of $200K to $250K plus equity.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience as a full-stack, backend, or infra engineer.
• Experience building devtools or deployment infrastructure tooling.
• Owned product development from 0 to 1.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available systems.
• Work with the founding team to define technical direction.
• Debug performance issues across distributed systems.

Skills

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

Go (Golang)

Proficient across the entire stack

Education

Undergraduate degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Postgres

Job description

Ryvn — Founding Software Engineer

Type: Full-time | On-site | New York, NY
Compensation: $200K–$250K + 0.5–2% equity
Hiring count: 1
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Reports to: Albert Lam, Co-founder / CEO

Ryvn builds the deployment infrastructure that powers mission-critical software in industries where reliability matters most — healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. They help AI startups deploy into enterprise clouds: enterprises want AI solutions but don't want data leaving their network, so Ryvn brings the software to them, deploying inside customers' secure environments rather than centralized cloud. The founders ran customer deployments at Palantir across hundreds of environments in healthcare, finance, defense, and the Fortune 100.

Founded: 2024 | Team size: 5 employees | Total funding: $2M (YC-backed, seed) | Industry: Software Development, AI, Enterprise, Healthcare, Finance, Manufacturing, Devtools | Website: ryvn.ai | Office: New York, NY

The Role

As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll design and build distributed systems that transform how organizations deploy and manage software at scale, owning problems end-to-end and shipping code that runs in production across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments.
• Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define Ryvn's technical direction and architecture.
• Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions, with the autonomy to ship fast.
• Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure.
• Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully, balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability.

Tech stack: Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS/GCP). Nice-to-haves: Go, TypeScript, React, Postgres, S3, Helm, Docker, Terraform, Pulumi.

Qualifications

Seniority

• 1+ years of experience as a full-stack, backend, or infra engineer that has built 01.

Work Experience

• Experience building devtools or deployment infrastructure tooling.
• Owned product development end-to-end (0 to 1).
• Experience at a high-growth, VC-backed startup.

Education

• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science.

Hard Skills

• Proficient across the entire stack.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Experience with Go (Golang).

Soft Skills

• High iteration velocity suitable for an early-stage startup.

Miscellaneous

• Looking for trajectory/slope in career.

Traits to Avoid

• Career experience limited to configuring systems (e.g., some DevOps roles).
• Engineers from large enterprise backgrounds who prefer stability.

Role Details

Salary: $200K–$250K
Equity: 0.5–2%
On-site policy: 5 days in-office in New York City
Visa sponsorship: Not available
Employment type: Full-time
Location: New York, NY