Founding Engineering Team
About Altis
Altis provides independent, institutional-grade diligence research on Series A and later-stage companies for venture investors. Private investors are beginning to rely on the proprietary research, experts, and data that is only available on the Altis platform. The team pairs MBB-caliber diligence training with advanced AI to create high-quality work faster and at a lower cost than traditional methods.
About the Role
Altis is growing their Founding Engineering team to help drive their product offerings and own different parts of the tech stack. You'll report directly to the CEO, partner with our existing engineering team on architecture and roadmap, and help build the team from 2 engineers today toward roughly 10. The biggest gap you'll be closing on day one: bringing a product mindset to our roadmap that’s deeply tied to speeding up our research processes.
New York City - in-person; 4 days a week expected.
What You'll Do
Help share and own the roadmap and delivery of Altis' internal research-enablement tooling - sit with the research and sourcing teams to understand their real workflows, with a goal of meaningfully cutting the time it takes them to produce a report
Commit to delivery dates for engineering's key initiatives, hit them, or flag slippage early and clearly
Partner with our existing engineering team on architecture decisions, including Altis's move toward direct API/MCP access for customers
Report directly to the CEO as a technical thought partner on product and roadmap tradeoffs
Stand up the engineering processes (planning, review, ownership) a growing team needs
Help design and run the technical interview process as the team scales
What You Bring
A track record of shipping software that is an excellent product that its intended users actually adopted, not just software shipped to spec
Comfort owning and communicating delivery timelines, including flagging risk before it becomes a surprise
Strong communication skills with both technical peers and non-technical stakeholders, including a CEO
Experience with AI-native, LLM- or RAG-powered products
Nice to Haves
Experience leading and scaling engineering teams, ideally at an early-stage (seed/Series A) startup - rather than a background primarily at a large/big tech company
Exposure to designing external API or MCP-style developer surfaces
Comfort evaluating and evolving an existing codebase and architecture built by an early engineering team
What You'll Get
Competitive cash and equity compensation, commensurate with experience and scope
A direct reporting line to the CEO and real ownership over key engineering and product decisions.
A ground-floor seat at a fast-growing, recently-funded research company with early customer traction across venture and institutional investors
A New York City-based team
What We Value
We believe confident nonsense is worse than honest ambiguity. Altis operates with the same rigor and transparency in how we build our own tools as we do in the research we sell - full ownership, clear communication, and no shortcuts on the truth.
Skills Required
- Track record of shipping software products that users adopted
- Experience owning and communicating engineering delivery timelines
- Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with AI-native, LLM-powered, or RAG-powered products
- Experience leading and scaling engineering teams at an early-stage startup
- Exposure to designing external API or MCP-style developer surfaces
- Experience evaluating and evolving an existing early-stage codebase and architecture
What We Do
Altis is a venture intelligence platform that helps investors make faster, better decisions on Series A, B, and C companies. It conducts deep primary research through interviews with customers, competitors, and industry specialists, then synthesizes that evidence into analysis supporting investment committee decisions. Its work is designed to help investors build conviction, evaluate opportunities, and focus diligence on the questions that most affect outcomes.
