# Growth Engineer

**Company:** [Extend](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/extend)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** GTM Engineering
**Salary:** $170k – $200k/yr
**Skills:** JavaScript, Python, APIs, Datasets, Evals, Developer Tooling, Benchmarks, Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-01-12

> Builds and ships public-facing technical projects like benchmarks, demos, and microsites to drive developer adoption and revenue for a document processing platform. Requires full-stack engineering skills, experience with APIs/datasets/evals, and high agency in ambiguous startup environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build public-facing technical projects (e.g. OCR Arena (ocrarena.ai), benchmarks, demos, microsites)
- Design and run benchmarks for document processing (accuracy, latency, cost, tradeoffs)
- Ship technical demos, reference implementations, and eval harnesses
- Write production-quality code across the stack
- Own projects from idea → build → launch → iteration
- Instrument experiments and tie them back to adoption and revenue impact
- Partner closely with Engineering, Product, and GTM
- Move fast, test aggressively, and kill ideas that don't work

## Requirements
- Strong engineering fundamentals and experience shipping real systems
- Comfort working across the stack (**frontend**, **backend**, **infra**, **data**)
- Experience with **APIs**, **datasets**, **evals**, or **developer tooling**
- Background in high-growth startups or highly ambiguous environments
- Ability to communicate clearly with a technical audience
- High agency and velocity
- Strong technical taste (signal > noise)
- A founder mentality — no task is beneath you
- Obsession with outcomes, not activity

## Nice-to-Haves
- Built tools, benchmarks, or demos that became externally useful
- Written technical content grounded in systems you actually built
- Shipped side projects that attracted real developer usage or attention
- Worked at the intersection of product, engineering, and growth

## Benefits
- 90% health insurance premium coverage
- Relocation for candidates based outside of NYC
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Daily lunch & snacks covered (plus dinner if late)
- Unlimited token / tooling access
- Learning and development investment

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