# Founding Software Engineer

**Company:** [Ryvn](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ryvn)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $220k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Go, TypeScript, React, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, AWS, GCP, Azure, Postgres, S3, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Prometheus, Grafana
**Posted:** 2025-11-07

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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

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