Syndesus
Software Engineer
New York, USA · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$180k-$220kDetected 57 days ago
PythonReactFull-Stack DevelopmentAlgorithmsVector DatabasesGraphQLMachine LearningNLPLLMsLangGraphValuationLogisticsCommunication
About the role
- Join an AI-native engineering team as a Software Engineer.
- The engineering org is currently 7 people (a mix of contractors and full-time staff), and everyone is AI-focused.
- Your work will directly affect thousands of owners navigating one of the biggest financial moments of their lives.
Responsibilities
- About Our Client Our client is developing an AI-native marketplace for the purchase and sale of small businesses.
- Engineers here treat AI as a force multiplier in their own work and in what they ship, and the team takes the craft of production AI seriously.
- You'll partner directly with the Head of Engineering and the product team to build the AI-native platform powering how small businesses change hands.
Compensation
- $180k-$220k
Benefits
- $180-220k + 0.5% equity
- Compensation: $180-220k + 0.5% equity Visa Sponsorship: Yes Interview Process 1.
Company info
- you'll help shape product direction, build core systems end-to-end, and raise the bar on customer-first execution.
- The work also carries real meaning - when it's done well, it gives small business owners clarity, speed, and confidence at one of the most important financial and personal moments of their lives.
- About the Role Join an AI-native engineering team as a Software Engineer.
- This is not a papers-and-prototypes role - it's hands-on product engineering with real AI systems.
- You'll ship full-stack AI projects end-to-end, work closely with sales and operations, and translate real business needs into intelligent product experiences that users engage with every day.
- At our client, AI isn't a separate track - it's woven into how products get conceived, built, shipped, and improved.
- If you're an engineer who thrives on owning the full loop, from identifying the key problem to monitoring it in production, you'll do well here.
- ⦁ Ship full-stack AI features end-to-end - from scoping with stakeholders to deploying production systems that solve concrete problems for buyers and sellers. ⦁ Own 0-to-1 projects, partnering with sales and operations to find high-leverage opportunities and build intelligent capabilities around them. ⦁ Build and refine the AI infrastructure that supports production-grade inference, evaluation, and monitoring. ⦁ Work across the stack to integrate AI seamlessly into the marketplace, designing clean interfaces that make intelligent features feel native to the product. ⦁ Develop tools and systems that scale - from intelligent matching to document understanding to agentic workflows that reshape how the marketplace operates.
- Requirements ⦁ You have shipped and owned production AI systems end-to-end (LLM and/or classic ML) - real users, measurable outcomes, and operational responsibility. ⦁ Strong software engineering fundamentals, excellent Python skills, and proven experience integrating foundation models into production systems.
- Bonus Skills ⦁ Hands-on experience with modern AI frameworks (LangGraph, LangChain, LlamaIndex), vector databases, or LLM observability tooling. ⦁ Experience designing evaluation suites for LLM systems (offline and online), including rubric-based and model-graded evals. ⦁ Experience running LLM systems at scale - latency, cost, caching, fallbacks, rate limits, and overall reliability. ⦁
- The company is on a strong growth trajectory, with roughly 30,000 buyers and sellers on the platform and more than 100 completed transactions.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 5% equity Visa Sponsorship: Yes Interview Process 1
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