Hybrid Founding Software Engineer

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Own and evolve a web-based analytics platform from MVP to market leader; set the technical vision and drive implementation across the stack.
  • Shape and communicate initial architecture and technology strategy to align with product goals and scale requirements.
  • Contribute hands-on across the entire stack—build new internal and external features, refactor existing code, and integrate third-party services.
  • Establish and champion coding standards, testing strategies, and CI/CD workflows to maintain high code quality and accelerate delivery.
  • Collaborate closely with founders, data scientists, and external partners to translate user needs into technical requirements.
  • Oversee hosting, deployment pipelines, observability and alerting infrastructure; ensure platform performance, security, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Support hiring and growing the engineering team and culture as the company scales.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 1 year in a senior or lead role.
  • Demonstrated track record of taking data-centric products from MVP through growth stages.
  • Experience building and rapidly iterating in high-velocity, high-impact startup environments.
  • Frontend: React, Typescript, Vite, Tailwind (or equivalent frameworks).
  • Backend: Node.js, Python, or similar; experience designing and securing APIs.
  • Database: MySQL, Postgres, or similar; experience building robust and flexible data models.
  • Cloud & Data: AWS services (S3, RDS, ECS), and familiarity with analytics stacks.
  • Tooling: Git, CI/CD pipelines, observability platforms, testing frameworks.
  • Familiarity with large scale biological data is a plus.
  • Comfortable making decisions with ambiguous information, wearing multiple hats, and adapting quickly.
  • Eager to explore and apply AI and optimization tools to drive technical and business value.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Build Something That Matters: Work will directly contribute to protecting animal health and food systems, tackling a problem that ultimately affects all US consumers.
  • High Ownership, Real Autonomy: End-to-end ownership of the product's technical foundation and freedom to make key architectural, infrastructure, and tooling decisions.
  • Learn Fast, Grow Faster: Mission-driven startup culture that supports experimenting with new AI/ML tools, better dev workflows, and learning from domain experts.
  • Work With People Who Care: Direct collaboration with passionate founders, scientists, and field experts.
  • Scale With the Company: Opportunity to help build the product, engineering team, culture, and practices from the ground up.
  • Competitive Compensation & Meaningful Equity: A strong salary and a meaningful equity stake are offered.

Job title

Founding Software Engineer

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