Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
An early-stage organization is seeking a founding engineer to own major product areas from architecture through production. The role focuses on building AI-powered analytics tools and scalable full-stack applications.
Highlights
High-impact founding engineering role with ownership of product areas, close collaboration with leadership, and opportunities to shape engineering culture.
Description
An early-stage startup building the operating system for psychotherapy practices is hiring a Founding Engineer.
Their software helps therapists and practice owners understand how their business is performing, see what needs attention, and spend far less time on admin.
They have raised over $5M, the team is six people in New York, and they are hiring our third engineer to own a major product vertical: practice analytics and insights.
This is a founding engineer seat.
You will work with the co-founders every day, own product areas outright, and shape both the product and the engineering culture from the ground up.
What You Will Do
Own entire product verticals end to end: roadmap, architecture, execution and production operationsBuild AI-powered analytics and tooling that lets one practice operator support 40+ practices instead of 1-2Run parallel Claude Code and Codex agent sessions to ship at dramatically higher velocityArchitect and deploy full-stack features in Python and React on AWS, with no dedicated DevOps supportMake product decisions autonomously: spot the opportunity, form an opinion, ship it without waiting for a specBuild the EHR integrations and data layer that practice analytics runs on
What We Are Looking For
5-10+ years of full-stack engineering with real product ownershipYou have built and shipped a product end to end, zero to one, not just features inside a larger teamFull-stack fluency across frontend and backend, built from scratch rather than maintainedA sophisticated agentic AI workflow: Claude Code or Codex deeply integrated with parallel sessions and custom tooling, not casual copilot useHands-on cloud infrastructure experience, AWS preferred, plus DockerHigh agency and an ownership mindset, and comfort with early-stage intensityBased in New York City or willing to relocate promptly.
This role is five days a week in office
Nice to have
Experience at a high-growth startup or a top-tier tech companyYou have built product-facing analytics features
Stack
Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL, AWS (ECS, RDS, ElastiCache, EC2), Docker, Playwright, GitHub Actions, Claude Code, Codex.
Compensation
$200K-$320K base salary depending on experienceMeaningful equity, roughly 0.5%-1%Relocation support for candidates moving to New YorkOpen to visa transfers such as OPT and H1B on a case-by-case basis
Interview process
A 45-minute behavioral conversation with a co-founder, including a lightly technical discussion of system designA 2-4 hour system design and product building exercise: review a partially fleshed-out spec and codebase, identify the wrong decisions baked into it, talk through your approach, then build the solution.
AI tools are allowed and encouragedOffer
