Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join an established, profitable trading platform as its first engineering hire. You will build the systems behind real-time pricing and trading in the live events ticketing sector, where product improvements can affect business outcomes quickly.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build and own core platform systems, including the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
• Turn interactive model research into continuously running AI research pipelines.
• Develop A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput.
• Create AI-powered operational systems for automated triage, production incident response, and model drift detection.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Three to ten years of post-graduate software engineering experience, with a record of strong performance and career growth.
• Experience in platform engineering and building or operating data-intensive production systems, ideally using Python.
• Familiarity with real-time systems, data pipelines, classical machine learning, and agentic AI developer workflows.
• Experience at a high-growth startup or in a strong engineering organization solving challenging technical problems.
• Strong data intuition, curiosity about business outcomes, and the ability to use data to inform pricing or product decisions.
• Comfort challenging decisions constructively and a history of continuous employment.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and interest in live events such as concerts or sports.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder. Visa sponsorship is not available.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

LOCATION

On-site in New York, New York.