Senior Software Engineer

String; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

String is building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web. Our customers range from hedge funds to seed-stage startups, and we process 50M+ rows weekly with strong ARR growth. This NYC in-person role reports to the CTO.

You will ship meaningful features across the stack (backend, ML, infra, AI agents) in a tight-knit team. We offer market-leading compensation and equity in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years shipping; proven track record of delivering products.
• Launched meaningful products in small teams or 0-1 environments.
• Experience across the stack (backend, ML, infra, AI) preferred.
• Enjoys in-person collaboration in a tight-knit team.
• Excited by rapid startup pace and action bias.

Skills

5+ years shipping

Full-stack experience

Backend/ML/Infra

In-person collaboration

Startup mindset

Job description

Launching String Web Access APIRead the manifesto

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Reliably fetch data from any page on the web

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Senior Software Engineer @ String

Status Hiring

Business unit Engineering

Compensation 75th+ percentile for geo and experience + market leading equity

Reports to CTO

Location NYC (in person)

Overview

Hey this is Rohit (CEO/co-founder) writing this. I find most JDs to be quite impersonal and bland. We do things a bit differently here at String. So to start off, I appreciate you for taking the time to read this and for considering us.

We’re building the most comprehensive platform to collect and structure data from the web. Customers ranging from the world’s largest hedge funds to seed-stage startups use String to pull 50M+ rows of structured web data per week (that’s literally 50+ rows every second). We’re generating 7 figures in ARR and are growing double digit % MoM. We have found initial PMF and are now building our delivery team to accelerate growth. We’ve done everything so far with a lean team of < 10 people and we recently raised a seed round (unannounced) from leading VCs and angels in our space (Auren Hoffman, Charlie Songhurst, and many more). We are looking for the right person to join us on this exciting journey!

What do we do

• Build infrastructure to send thousands of requests to websites
• Build technology to avoid getting detected as a bot (very hard to do at scale)
• Code individual scripts for every website they want to scrape
• Fix all those scripts as websites change, and
• Ensure consistent data quality across runs

We solve all of these problems for them so that they never have to worry about scraping. Thus, we 1) significantly improve their end products driving millions in revenue and 2) save them hundreds of thousands of dollars in engineering costs.

Building this would have been impossible before the AI revolution. We have a unique opportunity to build the first platform where anyone can collect data across any website with just a prompt. And we're excited to be at the forefront of solving this problem for our customers.

Who we’re looking for

Reach out even if the below isn’t a match for you, we want great people with any background!

• 5+ YOE shipping , or equivalent skill :).
• You’ve launched meaningful products in small teams or 0-1 environments.
• You want to work across the stack (backend, ML, infra, AI agents, etc).
• You want to build in-person, side-by-side with a tight-knit team.
• You’re excited by the speed of early-stage startups and bias towards action.

Why join us

Before the AI revolution, building an end to end web scraping platform would have been impossible because every website is structured differently. We have a unique opportunity to build the first platform where a user can structure data across