Founding Software Engineer, Full-Stack at Credal.ai (W23)
$140K - $210K  •  0.10% - 0.90%
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New York, NY, US
Full-time
3+ years
About Credal.ai

At Credal, our mission is to Harness AI for everyone building a better future. We're a hyper-growth, well funded startup building an extraordinary team of thoughtful doers that can shape the future of the AI industry. With strong funding from great investors, we have the runway to navigate market fluctuations while making ambitious bets on our product vision.

Credal has built the industry’s easiest-to-use and most secure RAG platform along with configurable Copilots for custom AI workflows. Our AI development platform enables enterprises to rapidly unlock value from their private data sources for their employees and customers, all while enforcing appropriate access and security controls.

You can read more about our company on our Cultural Principles.

About the role

We’re looking for a founding full-stack engineer to help us transition from our MVP, with proven market demand from global enterprises, to a scalable, performant architecture while maintaining our industry leading security posture.

What you’ll do:

  • Take end-to-end ownership of our core products, built on…
    • Frontend: React, Typescript, NextJS, Tailwind
    • Backend: Typescript, NextJS, Gel/PostgreSQL
    • AI/ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Gemini, Milvus/QDrant/MongoDB
    • Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
  • Ensure we can successfully sync billions of records into our data platform from our customers’ SaaS tools reliably
  • Engage directly with customers and our GTM team to discover and solve our customers’ most complex and bleeding edge problems
  • Mentor junior engineers and continue raising our bar for engineering excellence

You’ll join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ from places like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google.

About you

You might be a great fit if you’re a strong developer in all things frontend and backend, with a deep interest in Agentic AI / LLM applications. Who you are:

  • Eager to join our mission of bringing Frontier Intelligence to the industries and institutions that matter the most to human welfare - e.g., healthcare, government, financial infrastructure
  • Coding comes naturally to you, you do it for fun, and excel at it for work
  • Spent 5+ years building software, ideally in excellent engineering cultures
    • “One of the best engineers I’ve ever worked with” - engineers you’ve worked with
  • High-ownership - owning things (projects, outcomes, customer unlocks) from ambiguous start to clean finish
  • Thrives in fast-paced environments - biasing towards action, not waiting for other people to tell you what to do or how to solve a problem
  • Customer-focused - you care about customers’ challenges and dreams, and are energized by empowering people
  • Doer of things (technical or otherwise) people told you were impossible or foolish before
  • Enjoys mentoring and accelerating people around you that are hungry to learn but may have less experience

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t perfectly match this description but believe you would be a good fit with our values and culture. We embrace driven people who may not fit the mold or check every box.

Benefits and work environment

  • Medical (incl HSA options), vision, dental insurance
  • Weekly team dinners, fun offsite events
  • Unlimited PTO
  • In-person at our big office in Dumbo with stocked kitchen and views of the bridge 🙂

Interview process

  • Intro conversation with CTO
  • Take-home assignment or whiteboard tech screen: your choice
  • Onsite to meet our engineering team and CEO
  • References

More about us

We accelerate the most complex, sophisticated operations of the most impactful institutions, while weaving security and governance into every part of our product. Our customers include the HHS, MongoDB, Comcast, Lattice, Wise, Checkr, and incident.io among others. Some highlights:

  • Cultural principles
  • Team of 12 with 7 engineers
  • 7-figure ARR
  • No enterprise customer has ever churned, >100% NRR
  • Raised just over $10m to date

Product docs, case studies, blog, podcast

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