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# Founding Software Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, Software Deployment, TypeScript, Pulumi, ReactJS, Backend, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Terraform, Docker, Golang
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8963c9b6dad430da

## About the Role

Must-haves
1+ years of experience as a fullstack, backend, or infra engineer who has built 0

 * 1
 * Experience building devtools or deployment infrastructure tooling
 * Owned product development end-to-end (0 to 1)
 * Proficiency across the stack
 * Experience with Kubernetes and cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
 * Undergraduate degree in Computer Science
 * High iteration velocity suited to an early-stage startup

Nice-to-haves

 * Experience at a high-growth, VC-backed startup
 * Experience with Go (Golang)
 * Experience deploying and scaling Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
 * Experience with TypeScript, React, Postgres, and S3
 * Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or Pulumi

## Description

As a Founding Software Engineer, you'll design and build distributed systems that transform how organizations deploy and manage software at scale, owning problems end-to-end and shipping code that runs in production across healthcare, finance, and manufacturing., * Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments.

 * Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define the company's technical direction and architecture.
 * Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions, with the autonomy to ship fast.
 * Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure.
 * Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully, balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability.

Tech stack: Kubernetes, Cloud (AWS/GCP). Nice-to-haves across Go, TypeScript, React, Postgres, S3, Helm, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi).


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