Founding Engineer

About the role I'm hiring a founding engineer to build Newsreel with me. Founding means what it sounds like. You'll own real surface area from week one, make architecture decisions we'll live with for years, and ship things to real users in days rather than quarters. Most of what we try won't work. That's the job. We're looking for someone who finds that energizing rather than exhausting. What you'll work on The product itself: TypeScript, React, and Next.js on the web, and React Native (or native Swift) for mobileThe intelligence layer: Python services for summarization, ranking, and recommendation — the part that decides what a reader sees and whyThe pipelines that ingest, dedupe, and structure news from a lot of messy sourcesWhatever else the week demands. Titles are loose here.You won't own all of this on day one, but you should be excited about ranging across it. Who you are You've shipped production software and can point to something you built end to endYou're comfortable being the person who figures it out — no roadmap handed to you, no one to escalate toYou have taste. You can tell the difference between a feature that's finished and one that merely worksYou can be in our New York City office 3 days a weekPassion beats experience here. I'd rather hire someone with three years of experience who can't stop thinking about this problem than someone with ten who's looking for their next comfortable seat. Nice to have Early-stage startup experience, or you've built and shipped something on your ownWork with LLMs in production — retrieval, evals, cost and latency tuning, the parts that are actually hardConsumer product instinctsDetails Full-time, in person in New York City, 3 days a week in officeCompensation is a mix of salary and meaningful equity — you're a founding engineer, and the equity should reflect thatHow to apply Send a note to brijesh@newsreel.co. Tell me two things: what drives you, and why Newsreel specifically. Please don't send me an AI-generated email.