Staff Software Engineer

dynamism; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Dynamism is hiring a Former CTO to lead the technical strategy from the founder onwards in New York. You will shape the product, drive architecture across front-end, backend, data, and production support, and partner with public works teams to define a high-impact roadmap.

As a founding-scale technologist, you will balance customer discovery with fast iteration, hire and guide a small engineering team, and own critical stack decisions including React, TypeScript, Mapbox, and geospatial data

Qualifications

• You founded a company or owned broad scope at an early startup.
• You still love writing, reviewing, and debugging code.
• You can move from a customer conversation to production with a small team.
• You can work alongside the founder in New York in person 4 days per week.
• Visa sponsorship has not been confirmed; please ask if this affects your search.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the founder and public works teams to decide what should exist, then build it.
• The role reaches from customer discovery and product strategy into interface, backend, data, and production support.
• Find the customer pain with the greatest operational and business value.
• Run quick tests before committing the team to a larger build.
• Ship software that connects evidence, condition, plans, and work.
• Create simple engineering habits that support speed and accountability.

Tools

React

TypeScript

Mapbox

Express

Geospatial data

Infrastructure

Job description

Former CTO

Base salary: $200K to $300K plus equity
Location: New York, 4 days in person | Full time

The best startup problems are specific enough to see and important enough to matter. Here, the problem is how a city knows which road needs work next. Covington, Kentucky, is bringing the platform into pavement planning, and Alexandria, Kentucky, reports a major reduction in manual survey work. Bring founder-level judgment to the next customer problem and build the answer.

We are hiring for a company building the operating layer for the infrastructure cities maintain. Roads are the starting point: imagery, vehicle data, GIS records, engineering documents, and local knowledge become a living map of assets and their condition. Public works teams can use that evidence to plan capital, explain priorities, and manage work. The longer ambition reaches sidewalks, drainage, signs, bridges, and other public assets.

The product has customers, revenue, and funding, while the engineering choices that define the next phase are still open. You would join a world-class engineering team that includes a founding software engineer formerly at Brex and a machine learning engineer formerly at X, Google's moonshot factory.

What you'll own

Work directly with the founder and public works teams to decide what should exist, then build it. The role reaches from customer discovery and product strategy into interface, backend, data, and production support.

• Find the customer pain with the greatest operational and business value.
• Run quick tests before committing the team to a larger build.
• Ship software that connects evidence, condition, plans, and work.
• Create simple engineering habits that support speed and accountability.
  

Problems you'll solve

Cities vary in their records, budgets, and approval processes. You will identify what should become a repeatable product and what needs a careful local workflow, while keeping the evidence behind every recommendation visible.

Candidate fit

• You founded a company or owned broad scope at an early startup.
• You still love writing, reviewing, and debugging code.
• You can move from a customer conversation to production with a small team.
• You can work alongside the founder in New York in person 4 days per week.
  
• Base salary: $200K to $300K, plus founding team equity.
• Full time, New York, 4 days in person.
• Work directly with the founder and a small engineering team.
• Core stack: React, TypeScript, Mapbox, Express, geospatial data, and practical infrastructure.
• Visa sponsorship has not been confirmed; please ask if this affects your search.