# Founding Software Engineer

**Company:** [Avallon AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/avallon-ai)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $150k – $200k/yr
**Experience:** 4+ years
**Skills:** TypeScript, SQL, Retries, Circuit Breakers, Observability, CI/CD, Tool Orchestration, Provider Routing, Eval Platform, Coding Agents
**Posted:** 2026-04-14

> Builds and owns core agent execution platform for AI systems automating insurance tasks, including tool orchestration, reliability infrastructure, evals, and developer tools. Requires 4+ years experience with TypeScript/SQL in regulated environments; NYC-based.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the agent execution platform: turn handling, tool orchestration, session lifecycle.
- Build provider routing, multi-provider failover, cost optimization, latency-aware model selection.
- Develop eval platform: per-run evals, canary deployments, automated regression detection.
- Own developer platform: coding agent workflows, internal tooling, CI/CD.

## Requirements
- 4+ years building production software.
- TypeScript, SQL proficiency.
- Experience building reliability infrastructure: retries, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, observability.
- Regulated or security-sensitive environment experience.
- High agency, full ownership; comfortable in founding role shaping platform and product.
- Based in NYC or willing to relocate.

## Benefits
- Lunch and dinner every workday.
- 100% medical, dental, vision covered; gym stipend.
- Quarterly offsites.
- Unlimited token budget.

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