Founding Engineer
Quick Summary
At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within a startup environment as a founding engineer or early engineering team member.
As a Founding Engineer, you will play a central role in building an AI-powered platform transforming how renewable energy projects are evaluated and financed. You will take ownership of the end-to-end product experience, from customer-facing applications to the underlying technical infrastructure. Working directly with customers, analysts, and expert reviewers, you will turn real-world needs into innovative product features. You will develop intelligent document processing and AI-assisted diligence workflows that make complex information more accessible, accurate, and actionable. This is an exciting opportunity to join an early-stage team, influence technical and product strategy, and help accelerate investment in renewable energy and critical infrastructure. You will have significant ownership and the opportunity to shape a product from the ground up.
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Own the development and continuous improvement of the platform supporting AI-powered renewable energy diligence and project evaluation.
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Work directly with customers to understand their challenges, gather feedback, and translate business needs into practical product improvements.
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Design, develop, and deploy features across the entire product experience, including customer-facing interfaces, analyst tools, and expert reviewer workflows.
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Build and maintain scalable full-stack applications, contributing to both frontend and backend architecture.
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Develop and operate AI-assisted document review, information retrieval, and diligence workflows.
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Implement systems that ensure customer data remains isolated, securely managed, access-controlled, and fully auditable.
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Build reliable document processing and information extraction capabilities, ensuring that AI-generated claims are supported by verifiable source documents.
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Design workflows that identify unsupported questions or uncertain information and efficiently escalate them to qualified expert reviewers.
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Implement measurable experiments to assess product changes, monitor AI accuracy, and identify potential performance regressions.
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Take ownership of technical decisions, contribute to product direction, and establish engineering practices that support the platform's long-term growth.
Requirements
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At least 2 years of professional software engineering experience, ideally within a startup environment as a founding engineer or early engineering team member.
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Strong full-stack development experience, with the ability to build and maintain both frontend and backend applications.
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Hands-on experience with AI-powered applications, particularly agent architectures, large language models (LLMs), and AI-driven workflows.
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Experience developing document processing, retrieval, information extraction, or automated document analysis systems.
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Familiarity with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.
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Understanding of secure application architecture, including data isolation, access control, and auditability.
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Ability to build reliable AI systems that prioritize accuracy, source-grounded outputs, and appropriate human review.
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and independently deliver solutions.
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A proactive, entrepreneurial mindset and willingness to take ownership across product development, engineering, and customer interactions.
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Strong communication and collaboration skills, particularly when working directly with customers and cross-functional stakeholders.
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Experience or exposure to fintech, legaltech, proptech, renewable energy, or infrastructure technology is an advantage.
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Ability to work effectively within North American time zones.
What We Offer
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About this job
- Pay per year
- $130,000–$150,000 a year
- 28% below the $195,000 median for Founder jobs on Jobera (54 salaries).
- Who can apply
- United States
- Posted
- Today
Listing Details
- Posted
- November 9, 2026
- First seen
- November 9, 2026
- Last seen
- November 9, 2026
Posting Health
- Days active
- 0
- Repost count
- 1
- Trust Level
- 73%
- Scored at
- November 9, 2026
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