Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Join a profitable, bootstrapped fintech company as its first engineering hire. You will build real-time pricing and trading systems for live event tickets, where product improvements can have a direct business impact.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Build and own core platform systems, including the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
• Develop AI research pipelines that turn interactive, session-based model research into continuously running infrastructure.
• Create A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput.
• Build 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, including experience at high-growth startups or strong engineering organizations.
• Experience in platform engineering and designing and operating data-intensive production systems, ideally with Python.
• Familiarity with AI and machine learning, data pipelines, real-time systems, and agentic AI developer workflows.
• Strong data intuition, with the ability to use data to inform pricing or product decisions.
• A record of career progression, sound technical judgment, and willingness to challenge decisions constructively.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and an interest in live events such as concerts or sports.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder.

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

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

LOCATION

On-site in New York, New York.