Software Engineer - Hybrid, Stock Options

orchard; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Benefits package

Job summary

Orchard, based in New York, seeks a software engineer to build and maintain the services powering its website and internal tooling. You’ll work across backend and frontend with Python, Postgres, OpenSearch on the backend and Qwik/TypeScript on the frontend, collaborating with product and design to ship scalable features.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast delivery, and practical AI-assisted coding while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong skills in Python, TypeScript, or Go, with API and data modeling knowledge.
• Experience with AWS, Postgres, SQL, Kafka, Airflow, Docker, or CircleCI is a plus.
• Experience directing AI coding tools effectively.
• Low-ego, ownership mindset; proactive and collaborative.
• Interest in a hands-on team where engineers ship quickly and have real impact.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the services and interfaces that power Orchard's website and internal tools.
• Work with product and design to turn ideas into clear, well-scoped projects.
• Debug and improve core services to be faster and more reliable for national growth in 12–18 months.
• Ensure our systems scale smoothly as our user base grows.
• Write clean, tested code that's easy to understand and maintain.
• Help improve developer workflows, testing, and documentation.
• Take part in on-call rotations and own the systems you build.
• Work with a small team that values communication, trust, and practical solutions.
• Use AI coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex in daily workflow.
• Comfortable reviewing code you didn't write.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

APIs

Data modeling

Tools

AWS

Postgres

SQL

Kafka

Airflow

Docker

CircleCI

Job description

Orchard, based in New York, seeks a software engineer to build and maintain the services powering its website and internal tooling. You’ll work across backend and frontend with Python, Postgres, OpenSearch on the backend and Qwik/TypeScript on the frontend, collaborating with product and design to ship scalable features.

The role emphasizes ownership, fast delivery, and practical AI-assisted coding while participating in on-call rotations.