Founding Software Engineer
Founding Software Engineer designs and builds distributed systems for software deployment orchestration across complex enterprise environments. Requires 3+ years experience, full-stack fluency across languages and tools, and strong ownership to shape technical architecture with founders.
About the job
What You’ll Do
- Build at scale: Design, build, and maintain highly available systems that orchestrate software deployment across hundreds of production environments
- Shape the foundation: Work directly with the founding team to define Ryvn’s technical direction and architecture
- Solve and streamline: Identify inefficiencies and design elegant solutions — with the autonomy to ship fast and keep our technology ahead of the curve
- Own complex systems: Debug performance issues across distributed systems, from backend services to production infrastructure
- Balance tradeoffs: Navigate engineering decisions thoughtfully — balancing short-term velocity with long-term scalability and impact
What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years of software development experience, ideally including time at a small, high-growth company
- Full-stack fluency: Comfortable working across web frameworks, APIs, and databases in multiple programming languages
- Strong technical judgment: Able to make pragmatic, well-reasoned tradeoffs to drive projects forward
- Ownership mindset: You take initiative, see problems through, and care deeply about the systems you build
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Experience deploying and scaling Kubernetes, Helm, and Docker
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling, especially GitHub Actions
- Experience building with Go, TypeScript, and React
- Comfort working with Postgres and S3
- Experience using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or Mimir for observability
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation
Life at Ryvn
- Fully in-person team in NYC
- Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Unlimited PTO and sick leave
- Annual professional development stipend
- Company-paid lunch, dinner, and coffee
- Annual retreats and team offsites
Skills
Go, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgres, S3, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana
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