{"id":4301306,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ai-contract-ag-founding-engineer","title":"Founding Engineer","company":{"id":2355236,"name":"AI CONTRACT AG","domain":"marcprop.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/marcprop","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":120000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"BullMQ","optional":false},{"name":"ElasticSearch","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Tailwind CSS","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-14T03:10:45Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-11-14T03:10:45Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"MARC builds AI-native infrastructure that connects enterprise contracts with accounts payable and financial systems. The Founding Engineer will build and scale backend infrastructure for document processing, contract analysis, invoice verification, search, and customer-facing APIs, with end-to-end ownership from design through production.\n\nResponsibilities\nAsync processing pipelines: multi-step pipelines for document ingestion, AI extraction, deduplication and cross-document verification, with progress tracking, retries and graceful failure\nSearch and data layer: Elasticsearch indices, mappings and query patterns that power search, filtering and reconciliation across millions of records; PostgreSQL schema design and optimisation in a multi-tenant setup\nAPIs: scalable, maintainable RESTful services with proper multi-tenant isolation\nAI reliability: evaluation frameworks and automated test suites that measure and validate the output of AI-driven and deterministic workflows alike\nEnd-to-end ownership: from design through to production, with the occasional contribution to the frontend (Nuxt, Tailwind) when needed\n\nSkills\nProduction experience with Node.js and TypeScript, building services and APIs\nSchema design, query optimisation, migrations\nProduction experience designing indices, writing queries and tuning performance across large datasets\nJob-queue frameworks (BullMQ, SQS or similar) for orchestrating multi-step async processing\nA strong automated-testing mindset, and familiarity with building evaluation frameworks for AI-driven pipelines\nA good understanding of security principles across the network, transport and application layers\nYou see what needs doing and do it without waiting to be asked; you make decisions with incomplete information and own the outcome either way\n4-6 years in backend or full-stack development, ideally at a high-growth tech or SaaS company\nLarge-scale data extraction and ingestion pipelines, particularly where AI pulls structured data out of unstructured sources such as documents, contracts or invoices\nMulti-tenant schemas, connection pooling, migration strategies across tenant databases\nDocker and deploying to AWS ECS\nTemporal or similar pipeline-orchestration frameworks; pub/sub and event-driven architectures\nLangGraph or similar agent-orchestration frameworks\n\nBenefits\nSignificant equity\n401(k)\nMedical and dental insurance fully paid\n\nCompany Overview\nMARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management. It was founded in 2025, and is headquartered in Dublin, Dublin, IRL, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://marcprop.com.\n\nCompany H1B Sponsorship\nMARC has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2025, 4 in 2024, 1 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 2 in 2021, 5 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.","description_format":"text","description_chars":2857,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Dental insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Real Estate","Asset Management & Funds"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-14T03:21:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":26,"reasons":["seen:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T04:00:53Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ai-contract-ag-founding-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ai-contract-ag-founding-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-14T04:00:53Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6296,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2355236},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2355236"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fai-contract-ag-founding-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fai-contract-ag-founding-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fai-contract-ag-founding-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ai-contract-ag-founding-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fai-contract-ag-founding-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4301306}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"marcprop.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4301306},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}