Senior Software Engineer

🚀 SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER — BUILD FROM 0 → 1 — NYC You know that feeling when you find the thing before everyone else does? This is that. We're looking for an experienced engineer who's done this before and wants to do it again — this time with real ownership from day one. This isn't "join a team and pick up tickets." This is get in early at one of NYC's fastest-growing start-ups and help build the product from the ground up. Billions of interactions. Serious funding. A rocket-ship trajectory people will brag about being part of, years from now. If you've shipped production systems at scale, you know what good architecture looks like before it's written down, and you want real ownership — not permission — keep reading. What you'll actually be doing You're not maintaining someone else's spec. You're designing, building, and scaling a high-growth platform from scratch — TypeScript, PostgreSQL. You own features from idea to production. You deploy your own code. You help shape technical direction and where the product goes next. Full-send, no red tape. Who we need Highly experienced software engineer , ideally with time spent building products from early stage or in high-growth environmentsStrong fundamentals, solid OOP, deep backend experience — you've owned systems end-to-end, not just featuresYou've made real architectural decisions and lived with the consequencesYou learn fast and solve hard problems without needing a mapYou spot the problem and fix it — you don't wait to be toldYou can mentor and raise the bar for engineers around youCS degree from a top university, ideally. But mostly: you're clearly built for this Why this is different This is a red-hot platform in a niche that's exploding — connecting users with commercial opportunities through authentic content. You're not employee #3,000 buried in Slack. You're one of the early senior engineers, with the influence that comes with it. Your code ships, your decisions matter, and the line from your work to the company's growth is direct. That's rare at this level of seniority. The money talk 💰 $200K–$250K base — and that's before it gets good. Stack a bonus on top. Then equity, real equity, in a company that's about to be worth a lot more than it is today. Get in now, and the upside is yours to ride. The vibe Financial District, Manhattan. In-office, full-time — the whole team's there, shipping together. Not in NYC yet? No problem — they'll cover your interview and support you the whole way. So — you in? If you're an experienced engineer who wants to stop shipping other people's roadmap and start owning your own — this is your moment. One of NYC's fastest-growing start-ups is hiring right now, and this timing won't repeat. 👉 Send your resume — link's below. Questions? Hit up Initi8 HQ.