Software Engineer

Ryvn Technologies, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO and sick leave

Annual professional development stipend

Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee

Annual retreats and team offsites

Job summary

Ryvn Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Founding Software Engineer to design and build distributed systems that revolutionize software deployment. You will work closely with the founding team, shaping the company's technical architecture and culture while owning problems end-to-end. Candidates should have 3+ years of software development experience, strong technical judgment, and full-stack fluency across various technologies. Benefits include company-paid medical insurance, unlimited PTO, and a fully in-person team in New York City.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience, ideally with a small, high-growth company.
• Comfortable working across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages.
• Able to make pragmatic, well-reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward.
• Takes initiative and cares about the systems built.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available systems for software deployment.
• Define Ryvn’s technical direction and architecture.
• Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions.
• Debug performance issues across distributed systems.
• Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully.

Skills

Software development experience

Full‑stack fluency

Strong technical judgment

Ownership mindset

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Go

TypeScript

React

Postgres

S3

Grafana

Prometheus

Terraform

Job description

About the Role

As a Founding Software Engineer at Ryvn, you’ll design and build distributed systems that transform how organizations deploy and manage software at scale. You’ll work across the stack — from core platform services and APIs to performance optimization and developer experience — owning problems end-to-end and shipping code that runs in production environments across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing.

You’ll work side‑by‑side with the founders to shape Ryvn’s technical architecture, product roadmap, and engineering culture. This is a rare opportunity to join early, build foundational systems from first principles, and help define the DNA of a company reimagining how software reaches the world.

What You’ll Do

• 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 and keep our technology ahead of the curve

• 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 and impact

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of software development experience, ideally including time at a small, high-growth company

• Full‑stack fluency: Comfortable working across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages

• Strong technical judgment: Able to make pragmatic, well‑reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward

• Ownership mindset: You take initiative, see problems through, and care deeply about the systems you build

Nice‑to‑haves

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure

• Experience deploying and scaling Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker

• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions

• Experience building with Go, TypeScript, and React

• Comfort working with Postgres and S3

• Experience using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Mimir for observability

• Familiarity with infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation

Life at Ryvn

• Fully in‑person team in NYC

• Company‑paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Unlimited PTO and sick leave

• Annual professional development stipend

• Company‑paid lunch, dinner, and coffee

• Annual retreats and team offsites