Founding Engineer (Agentic AI)

Location: New York City, United States; on-site five days per week

Salary: $170,000–$250,000 base plus founding-level equity

Company

hirify.global is a specialist recruitment partner connecting AI, machine learning, data, and engineering talent with ambitious technology companies. The role is for a rapidly scaling, venture-backed healthcare technology company building software, human-expertise, and AI solutions for complex care navigation.

What you will do

• Architect and build backend services, APIs, data models, and platform capabilities for healthcare workflows.
• Develop full-stack product experiences with TypeScript and React-based technologies.
• Build AI-driven retrieval, knowledge, continuous-learning, and agentic workflow systems.
• Design systems that reason about provenance, confidence, changing information, and contextual user data.
• Improve care, communications, insurance, billing, and other operational workflows.
• Work directly with users and establish standards for architecture, reliability, testing, performance, and code quality.

Requirements

• Strong full-stack engineering fundamentals with particular depth in backend and systems design; frontend-only experience is not suitable.
• Experience owning meaningful products or systems end to end.
• Strong understanding of databases, ontology design, data models, APIs, and modern service architectures.
• Product judgment and appreciation for UX, interaction design, and polished software.
• High autonomy, strong problem-solving ability, and comfort working without detailed requirements or heavy management.
• Experience in a fast-moving startup environment or equivalent evidence of building effectively with limited structure.
• Comfort with modern AI tooling and integrating LLM-driven capabilities into real product workflows.
• Approximately three or more years of meaningful software engineering experience, unless an unusually early track record demonstrates equivalent depth.
• Willingness to work on-site in New York City five days per week.
• High ownership and comfort operating in a demanding early-stage environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with TypeScript, React, Next.js, AWS or similar cloud infrastructure, SQL and non-SQL databases, APIs and SDKs, service-oriented architectures, LLMs, agentic workflows, and AI-native tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent founding-engineer position with founding-level equity.
• Influence over architecture, engineering culture, and product direction while the company remains early-stage.
• Work on technically difficult problems spanning agentic AI, continuous learning, full-stack systems, and high-stakes real-world workflows.
• Build software intended to improve the quality of care for an underserved user base.