Founding Engineer

ABOUT THE ROLE Join an established, profitable trading platform as its first engineering hire. You will build the systems behind real-time pricing and trading in the live events ticketing sector, where product improvements can affect business outcomes quickly. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and own core platform systems, including the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading. - Turn interactive model research into continuously running AI research pipelines. - Develop A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput. - Create AI-powered operational systems for automated triage, production incident response, and model drift detection. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - Three to ten years of post-graduate software engineering experience, with a record of strong performance and career growth. - Experience in platform engineering and building or operating data-intensive production systems, ideally using Python. - Familiarity with real-time systems, data pipelines, classical machine learning, and agentic AI developer workflows. - Experience at a high-growth startup or in a strong engineering organization solving challenging technical problems. - Strong data intuition, curiosity about business outcomes, and the ability to use data to inform pricing or product decisions. - Comfort challenging decisions constructively and a history of continuous employment. - Strong computer science fundamentals and interest in live events such as concerts or sports. - Must be a U.S. citizen or Green Card holder. Visa sponsorship is not available. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $200,000 to $400,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. LOCATION On-site in New York, New York.