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Senior Software Engineer | React, React Native, TypeScript, Python | Must have Start Up Exp
Optimal·New York, New York, US
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Full-TimeUSD 190,000–250,000
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Software Engineer | React, React Native, TypeScript, Python | Must have Start Up Exp | Top CS Degree
Location: New York, NY (In‑person, 5 days/week)
Package: $190,000 – $250,000 + Competitive Equity
Eligibility: Perm US Residents Only | Top CS Degree | Start up Experience
🚨 Please only apply if you have commercial experience with all of the following below🚨:
• Experience in early‑stage startups or clear entrepreneurial drive (side projects, hackathons, founder experience)
• React and/or React Native
• TypeScript
• Python
• Building end‑to‑end workflows and shipping to production
• Working in fast, high‑ownership engineering environments
• Modern tooling across cloud, CI/CD, and distributed systems
This role is ideal for engineers who want to join a fast-scaling AI company that’s already achieved strong commercial traction and is tackling complex real‑world problems. You’ll be joining a small, high‑calibre engineering team building products used across large, non‑technical industries - working on challenges spanning AI, speech technology, mobile audio, and large‑scale systems. The organisation operates with a high‑trust, high‑ownership culture where engineers gain significant visibility, responsibility, and opportunities to shape core product and technical direction.
Required Background
• Junior to early‑mid/ Senior career engineer (typically 0-5+ years)
• Strong signals of initiative, ownership, and ability to move quickly
• Comfortable working in a demanding, high‑intensity, in‑office culture
• Experience building production systems across the stack
ℹ️ Very Important Notes
• This is in‑person only in NYC - no hybrid/remote
• High‑velocity, high‑responsibility environment
• Best suited to entrepreneurial, high‑energy builders
• Pure big‑tech backgrounds with no startup exposure typically do not align
Must-Haves
• Entrepreneurial, “hacky” builder mindset
• Ability to design → build → ship features end‑to‑end
• Strong customer obsession and willingness to iterate rapidly
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• High ownership and strong problem‑solving skills
• Excitement for long, focused days working in‑person with a tight-knit team
Bonus Experience
• AWS or cloud infrastructure exposure
• Experience with mobile development (React Native)
• Familiarity with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Turborepo, Lodash, Zod
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Terraform, Spacelift
• Prior founder, early‑employee, or startup operator experience
• Participation in hackathons / entrepreneurship clubs / VC fellowships
Hands-On Experience With
• React / React Native
• TypeScript
• Python
• Node.js
• PostgreSQL
• Modern build tooling & CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Terraform, etc.)
• End‑to‑end system design and deployment
What You’ll Be Doing
Automation Engineering
• Architect and ship features across the stack at high speed
• Build end‑to‑end workflows and bring them to production
• Solve technical problems across AI, speech, mobile audio, and distributed systems
Quality Ownership
• Raise engineering standards for code quality and decision-making
• Set early patterns that shape the engineering culture
• Build systems and tools that scale with rapid company growth
Collaboration
• Work closely with product, engineering, and customers
• Operate as an early technical steward in a growing engineering team
• Tackle real-world problems with direct customer exposure
What They’re Looking For
• Someone obsessive about learning and building
• A customer-first engineer focused on real-world impact
• A high-ownership contributor who thrives on accountability
• Someone unafraid of failure who iterates fast and learns quickly
• A future founder or technical leader eager to grow in a top-tier environment
If you tick the boxes above and want to work on meaningful technical challenges at high velocity, reach out for next steps.
What you'll do
- Building end‑to‑end workflows and shipping to production
- Working in fast, high‑ownership engineering environments
- The organisation operates with a high‑trust, high‑ownership culture where engineers gain significant visibility, responsibility, and opportunities to shape core product and technical direction
- Architect and ship features across the stack at high speed
- Build end‑to‑end workflows and bring them to production
- Solve technical problems across AI, speech, mobile audio, and distributed systems
- Set early patterns that shape the engineering culture
- Build systems and tools that scale with rapid company growth
- Work closely with product, engineering, and customers
- Operate as an early technical steward in a growing engineering team
- Tackle real-world problems with direct customer exposure
Requirements
- Experience in early‑stage startups or clear entrepreneurial drive (side projects, hackathons, founder experience)
- React and/or React Native
- TypeScript
- Python
- Modern tooling across cloud, CI/CD, and distributed systems
- Junior to early‑mid/ Senior career engineer (typically 0-5+ years)
- Strong signals of initiative, ownership, and ability to move quickly
- Comfortable working in a demanding, high‑intensity, in‑office culture
- Experience building production systems across the stack
- Best suited to entrepreneurial, high‑energy builders
- Pure big‑tech backgrounds with no startup exposure typically do not align
- Entrepreneurial, “hacky” builder mindset
- Ability to design → build → ship features end‑to‑end
- Strong customer obsession and willingness to iterate rapidly
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- High ownership and strong problem‑solving skills
- Excitement for long, focused days working in‑person with a tight-knit team
- AWS or cloud infrastructure exposure
- Experience with mobile development (React Native)
- Familiarity with Node.js, PostgreSQL, Turborepo, Lodash, Zod
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Terraform, Spacelift
- Prior founder, early‑employee, or startup operator experience
- Participation in hackathons / entrepreneurship clubs / VC fellowships
- React / React Native
- TypeScript
- Python
- Node.js
- PostgreSQL
- Modern build tooling & CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Terraform, etc.)
- End‑to‑end system design and deployment
- Raise engineering standards for code quality and decision-making
- Someone obsessive about learning and building
- A customer-first engineer focused on real-world impact
- A high-ownership contributor who thrives on accountability
- Someone unafraid of failure who iterates fast and learns quickly
- A future founder or technical leader eager to grow in a top-tier environment
- If you tick the boxes above and want to work on meaningful technical challenges at high velocity, reach out for next steps
Benefits
- Package: $190,000 – $250,000 + Competitive Equity
- High‑velocity, high‑responsibility environment