Founding Tech Lead

People in AI; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid work model

Job summary

People In AI is hiring its first full-time engineer in New York City to lead technical direction across the platform. The role spans product engineering, data systems, integrations, infrastructure and AI-driven workflows, with ownership of key systems and hands-on coding.

You’ll shape architecture, collaborate with founders, and mentor future engineers while helping deliver reliable, customer-focused solutions for complex insurance workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience owning production systems and platform reliability.
• Experience in an early-stage or fast-moving environment.
• Comfort working directly with customers and making architectural decisions.
• Experience using modern AI tools while validating outputs.

Responsibilities

• Own critical systems across data ingestion, reconciliation and recovery workflows.
• Help set technical direction and make key architectural decisions.
• Build reliable integrations across contracts, claims, remittance and customer data.
• Develop evaluation and monitoring systems for models and automated workflows.
• Work directly with customers to turn complex operational problems into simple products.
• Shape engineering standards, processes and technical quality.
• Help hire, onboard and mentor future engineers as the team grows.

Skills

Production systems

Early-stage product

Customer engagement

Architectural decisions

AI tools usage

Technical leadership

Team mentoring

Cloud infrastructure

Observability

Tools

APIs

Backend systems

Job description

$185,000–$215,000 base + 1.5%–2.0% equity

New York City (Hybrid)

We are working with an early-stage software company building a revenue intelligence platform for complex insurance workflows.

The company helps multi-location healthcare operators identify and recover insurance underpayments by reconciling contracts, claims, fee schedules, and remittance data, then automating evidence-backed recovery workflows.

Following a recent pre-seed raise, the team has strong runway, active design partners, and growing enterprise demand. They are now hiring their first full-time engineer to help lead technical direction and shape the future engineering team.

The Role

You’ll work directly with the founders and take broad ownership across the platform.

This is a highly hands-on role spanning product engineering, data systems, integrations, infrastructure and AI-driven workflows. You’ll help define technical direction, make key architectural decisions and play a major role in hiring and mentoring future engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Own critical systems across data ingestion, reconciliation and recovery workflows.
• Help set technical direction and make key architectural decisions.
• Build reliable integrations across contracts, claims, remittance and customer data.
• Develop evaluation and monitoring systems for models and automated workflows.Work directly with customers to turn complex operational problems into simple products.
• Shape engineering standards, processes and technical quality.
• Help hire, onboard and mentor future engineers as the team grows.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience owning important production systems.
• Experience building products in an early-stage or fast-moving environment.
• Strong product judgement and comfort working directly with customers.
• Confidence making architectural decisions with limited direction.
• Experience using modern AI tools while validating outputs and managing reliability.
• An interest in technical leadership, mentoring and team building.
• Healthcare, fintech or regulated‑industry experience is useful but not required.
• LLMs and agentic systems
• Data pipelines and integrations
• APIs and backend systems
• Relational and analytical databases
• Cloud infrastructure
• Observability and monitoring

Why Join?

This is a true founding technical role with direct influence over the product, architecture and engineering culture.

You’ll work closely with the founders, help lead technical direction and play a major role in building the engineering team from the ground up.

About People In AI

People In AI partners with ambitious technology companies to build world-class technical teams, connecting exceptional engineering and AI talent with high-impact opportunities.