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# Founding Engineer

- **Company:** Wintermeyer Ventures
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Data Infrastructure, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Application Enhancement Tool, Real Time Systems, Agentic-AI, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/15_d6f65eab

## About the Role

* Three to ten years of post-graduate software engineering experience, with a record of strong performance and career growth.
 * Experience building and operating platform or data-intensive production systems, ideally using Python.
 * Strong adoption of agentic AI workflows and familiarity with AI/ML, data pipelines, real-time systems, and classical machine learning.
 * Good data intuition, including the ability to use evidence to inform pricing or product decisions.
 * Sound engineering judgment, comfort challenging decisions, and experience taking professional risks and learning from setbacks.
 * Strong computer science fundamentals and an interest in live events such as concerts or sports.
 * Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

## Description

Join a small engineering team at a profitable, bootstrapped fintech platform focused on live event ticket trading. As the first engineering hire, you will build core systems where improvements to pricing and operations can have a direct business impact.
What You'll Do

 * Build and own the pricing engine, bidding system, and data infrastructure for real-time ticket trading.
 * Turn interactive model research into continuously running AI research pipelines.
 * Develop A/B testing frameworks for pricing and improve bidding system throughput.
 * Create AI-powered tools for operational triage, production incident response, and model drift detection.