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# Founding Engineer (Raad)

- **Company:** RAAD, Inc.
- **Location:** Miami, FL, United States (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, ArcGIS (Software), Software Debugging, Web Browsers, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, Redis, Technical Debt
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/founding-engineer-raad-montauk-capital-8141334

## About the Role

* Deep Ruby on Rails experience.
 * Obsession with clarity, code hygiene, and maintainability.
 * Comfort in high-speed, low-spec environments.
 * Ability to debug production incidents without panic.
 * Familiarity with arcGIS, Sidekiq, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS-adjacent infrastructure.
Curiosity about drones, mapping, or geospatial data (nice to have, not required).

## Description

At Raad, we move and ship at a blistering pace. You'll be the counterweight to the chaos that ensues - a detail-obsessed and process-driven engineer who brings stability.

This person will face foundational problems in geospatial systems that nobody has solved:

 1. How do we manage to ingest, QC, and stream millions of high-resolution drone camera files from hundreds of pilots who have completely heterogeneous networks, browsers, hardware, and bandwidths?
 2. How do we optimize our storage and processing (creating maps from underlying JPEGs) stack, balancing cost, redundancy, and throughput?
 3. And how do we expose this data cleanly and predictably through APIs, so our enterprise customers can consume it directly in their own GIS, underwriting, and asset management systems?
 4. And ultimately, how do we autonomously coordinate and control thousands of drones in the air, anywhere on earth, with absolute reliability?

You will:

 * Manage Raad's infrastructure and networking stack
 * Write clean, reliable Rails code every single day.
 * Sniff and rip out technical debt and replace it with leaner, more performant code.
 * Build out our entire internal dashboard, APIs to pipe data to customers, and worker. queues for mission dispatch, data uploads, and QC.
 * Help define our product architecture so it scales 10× without exploding.


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