The Role
Design and build core product features and infrastructure; develop and operate distributed microservice systems and data pipelines; optimize for performance, reliability, and scalability; integrate LLMs/agent-based workflows; collaborate closely with founders and shape engineering culture at an early-stage company.
Summary Generated by Built In
Company Description
Nyne is the people data company that gives AI agents and enterprises a unified, real-time view of any person or business. We are backed by exceptional investors, including South Park Commons, and are building foundational infrastructure for agent-driven software used in real production environments.
Role Description
We are seeking dynamic and driven Founding Engineers to play a pivotal role in shaping the technological foundation and strategy of our early-stage company. This is a full-time, on-site position based in San Francisco, CA. As a Founding Engineer, your responsibilities will include designing and developing core product features, optimizing systems for performance and scalability, and collaborating closely with the founding team to bring the company's vision to life. You will have the unique opportunity to work across the tech stack, make decisive technical choices, and help build a strong engineering culture within the organization.
Qualifications
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, regardless of language or framework
- Experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems and microservice-based architectures
- Comfort working across multiple codebases and services with different technology choices
- Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and production deployments
- Deep familiarity with Linux servers, networking basics, and operating system level debugging
- Experience building, operating, or maintaining data pipelines and backend services at scale
- Ability to reason about performance, reliability, and system tradeoffs in real production environments
- Familiarity with agent-based systems, LLM-powered workflows, or integrating AI models into production systems
- Strong problem-solving ability and comfort operating with incomplete information
- Clear communication and the ability to work closely with founders in a fast-moving, early-stage environment
- Prior experience as a founder, early engineer, or technical owner of critical systems is a strong plus
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience preferred, but not required
The base pay range for this role is $140,000 – $220,000 per year.
Skills Required
- Strong software engineering fundamentals
- Designing, building, and operating distributed systems and microservice-based architectures
- Comfort working across multiple codebases and services with different technology choices
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar) and production deployments
- Deep familiarity with Linux servers, networking basics, and OS-level debugging
- Experience building, operating, or maintaining data pipelines and backend services at scale
- Ability to reason about performance, reliability, and system tradeoffs in production
- Familiarity with agent-based systems, LLM-powered workflows, or integrating AI models into production systems
- Strong problem-solving ability and comfort operating with incomplete information
- Clear communication and ability to work closely with founders in a fast-moving early-stage environment
- Prior experience as a founder, early engineer, or technical owner of critical systems
- Degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
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The Company
What We Do
Nyne.ai is a people-and-company data platform that maps and unifies public digital footprints into a living identity graph. Using AI-driven identity resolution and millions of autonomous agents, Nyne delivers verified contact information, social profiles, life-event and interest signals, and business relationships via APIs and integrations to enrich agent workflows and enable context-aware autonomous decisioning for applications and enterprise systems.
