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# Founding Software Engineer

- **Company:** Flotive Inc
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** LangGraph Framework, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Big Data, Databases, Continuous Integration, PostgreSQL, OpenAI, Next.js, Web Application Frameworks, Web Services, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, LangChain, Large Language Models, Agentic-AI, CrewAI, Graphql, Restful APIs
- **Published:** October 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/922cdbf7-0e67-48c6-9cde-5a89c35f6b5a/founding-software-engineer

## About the Role

This isn't an engineering problem or a capital problem. It's an information problem. The rules that decide whether America gets built are scattered across thousands of agencies and millions of pages of regulatory text. Searching, cross-referencing, and verification has been a manual process, becoming the primary determinants of how long it takes for a project to get built., * 4+ years of experience as a software engineer with significant ownership over production systems for enterprise or consumer software.
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 * Experience designing search systems and working with GraphQL, REST APIs.
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 * Experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, or LLM-powered automation systems using tools such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants/Responses API, or similar frameworks
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 * Experience building production APIs and services using modern Python frameworks.
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 * Experience with PostgreSQL and databases
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 * Comfort working with building and operating on large datasets. GIS experience is helpful but not required
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 * Experience deploying and operating production services in cloud environments such as Azure, AWS, GCP, Render, Vercel, or similar platforms
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 * Familiarity with containers, CI/CD, observability, and the operational practices needed to keep production systems reliable

## Description

Flotive fixes that. We build AI systems that continuously ingest regulations, technical standards, permitting requirements, and agency guidance; understand how they relate to specific projects and locations; and produce verifiable, explainable answers backed by primary sources. Our customers spend less time searching for requirements and more time designing, permitting, and building. We're starting with power projects, but our work has the potential to have far reaching impacts on all types of developments- from housing to mining., As a Founding Software Engineer at Flotive, you will work closely with the co-founders (Francis and Akshay), other engineers, and subject matter experts to understand customer requirements, and own and make decisions on technical architecture before anyone else gets hired to weigh in on them. an always up-to-date decision-making framework that leverages verifiable AI grounded in regulatory documents and other authoritative sources.