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About the Role
Continuum Recruiting is seeking exceptional Software Engineers for multiple venture-backed AI and technology companies. These roles involve owning products from concept to deployment, building across the stack, and developing AI-native products. The ideal candidates are well-rounded builders who can make sound technical decisions and ship software end-to-end in fast-paced environments.
Responsibilities
- Own products, features, or core systems from initial concept and architecture through production deployment.
- Build across the stack, including backend services, APIs, data infrastructure, frontend/product surfaces, and cloud systems.
- Develop AI-native products and workflows using LLMs, agents, tool integrations, retrieval systems, and modern AI development tools.
- Make pragmatic architecture and product decisions in environments with limited process and incomplete requirements.
- Work directly with founders, customers, and other stakeholders to identify problems and translate them into shipped software.
- Build integrations with external APIs, business systems, data sources, and third-party platforms.
- Establish engineering patterns, tooling, testing, observability, and best practices as teams scale.
- Help shape engineering culture and, in some roles, mentor or lead engineers who join after you.
Requirements
- Strong professional software engineering experience with evidence of shipping production systems.
- End-to-end ownership: ability to move from an ambiguous problem to a working production solution without requiring a detailed specification.
- Strong backend, full-stack, product engineering, or systems engineering fundamentals.
- Experience with one or more modern production languages such as Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Java, or Rust.
- Comfort working across multiple layers of a product rather than being limited to a very narrow specialty.
- High agency, strong problem-solving ability, and comfort operating in fast-moving environments.
- A track record of meaningful technical impact, rapid growth, entrepreneurial work, strong startup experience, or other clear signals of engineering excellence.
- Clear communication and the ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs.
- Founding Engineer, Early Engineer, Product Engineer, Full-Stack Engineer, Backend Engineer, or Staff/Senior Software Engineer experience.
- Experience at an early-stage or high-growth startup, or evidence of ability to operate effectively in a startup-style environment.
- 0-to-1 product or platform development experience.
- Production AI/LLM or agentic-system experience.
- Python and/or TypeScript/React experience.
- Experience with API integrations, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or developer tooling.
- Daily use of modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex, or similar tools.
- Entrepreneurial experience, meaningful side projects, open-source work, or previous founder experience.
Skills
- AI
- LLMs
- Agentic systems
- Developer tooling
- Data infrastructure
- AI-enabled vertical software
- Product engineering
- Platform engineering
- Software fundamentals
- 0-to-1 execution
- Backend services
- APIs
- Cloud systems
- Applied AI
- Agent integrations
- Retrieval systems
- Modern AI development tools
- Pragmatic architecture
- Product decisions
- External API integrations
- Business system integrations
- Data source integrations
- Third-party platform integrations
- Engineering patterns
- Tooling
- Testing
- Observability
- Best practices
- Engineering culture
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Python
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- Go
- Java
- Rust
- Full-stack development
- Product development
- Systems engineering
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Technical decision explanation
- Tradeoff explanation
- TypeScript/React
- Distributed systems
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Copilot
- Codex
Location
- New York, NY
- San Francisco, CA
- Remote
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Founding Engineer
- Early Engineer
- Early-stage startup experience
- High-growth startup experience
- Staff/Senior Software Engineer
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000–$275,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity ownership
- Comprehensive health benefits, typically including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401(k) retirement plans, often with employer matching
About the Company
- Continuum Recruiting works with a portfolio of venture-backed AI and technology companies.
- These companies range from very early founding teams to rapidly scaling startups.
- The common denominator is a need for well-rounded builders who can take ambiguous problems, make sound technical and product decisions, and ship production software end-to-end.
- Many of the opportunities are AI-native and involve applied AI, LLMs, agentic systems, developer tooling, data infrastructure, or AI-enabled vertical software.
- Others are broader product and platform engineering roles where strong software fundamentals and 0-to-1 execution matter most.