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.