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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** David Joseph & Company
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, Claude Code
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/15_e8d4caae

## About the Role

1. 3+ years of full-stack software engineering experience shipping real products with real users, demonstrating startup-level velocity
 2. Customer-facing engineering experience: has worked directly with end users or customers, not only internal teams
 3. Daily coding with AI tools (Claude Code, Codex, or equivalent) as a core part of the workflow
 4. Communicates clearly and confidently with non-technical people
 5. High agency and comfort operating in 0-to-1 ambiguity without being told what to do
 6. US citizen or US work-authorized; no visa sponsorship available
 7. Willing to work in-person in New York City six days a week and travel to customer sites as needed (70/30 split between heads-down coding and deployments)

## Description

This is the company's first hire outside the founding team, reporting directly to the CTO. You will own full-stack feature development on a live product used by large multi-location contractors, while also spending meaningful time with technicians and business owners to gather feedback and drive deployment. The split is roughly 70% building and 30% with customers, with travel to customer sites fully expensed. Within 90 days, the expectation is that you own the design, build, rollout, and measured impact of new product lines as they launch.
What You'll Own

 * Ship full-stack features from 0 to 1 on a live product used by large home-services contractors across the US (Python, TypeScript, AWS)
 * Own new product lines end-to-end as the company expands beyond its core offering, from initial scope through rollout and measured impact
 * Go on-site with technicians and business owners to train users, gather product feedback, and inform what gets built next
 * Solve hard infrastructure problems: AI features that work offline in the field, low-latency pipelines across many data sources, and software flexible enough for heavy per-customer customization
 * Shape how the company scales by defining systems and processes without being handed tickets or a playbook