{"id":2790825,"url":"https://alion.io/job/tracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack","title":"Founding Engineer (Full-stack)","company":{"id":2361781,"name":"Tracecat","domain":"tracecat.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/tracecat","size_band":"1-10","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Work at a Startup","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["New York, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":200000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Next.js","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Reinforcement Learning","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-17T19:28:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-17","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T08:29:04Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"We are looking for full-stack generalist engineers who ship fast with an unrelenting bar for quality. You'll work directly with the founders every day, own user-facing features from design to build, and turn customer feedback into code that run in mission-critical environments. This is a high ownership role at a product-led open core company winning deals against competitors 100x their size.\nWhat you’ll do\nYou won’t just be picking up tickets; you will have the agency to shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.\nShip customer-facing features from 0-to-1: design, build, test, deploy, and own them in production\nTurn user feedback into code fast with zero compromise on technical rigor\nWork directly with the founders to keep priorities clear and blockers out of the way\nBuild intuitive user-experiences and reliable backend services that customers trust everyday\nSolve hard technical problems at the frontier of applied AI: from kernel-level agent sandboxes to agent memory retrieval for large data collection, you’re expected to turn research into product at a relentless pace.\nEngineer foundational agentic systems (skills, memory, reinforcement learning loops) for our customers and our own needs\nWhat you bring\nTechnical depth and software craftsmanship: we’re an anti-slop AI-pilled company\nProduct intuition: you care about the \"why\" as much as the \"how\"\nComfort working in a small team where speed and ownership are the norm\nExperience with modern full stack software engineering (frontend and backend)\nSlope over intercept: we value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities\nBonus\nPrior experience as a founder or founding engineer\nExperience building agentic products\nExperience working in product led companies with mission-critical infrastructure\nTechnical mastery: you have deep, senior/staff level expertise in either:Frontend: deep knowledge of React, Next.js. You understand the virtual DOM and state management complexities.\nBackend: strong systems design skills across distributed systems, API architecture, and database optimization.\n\nCompany benefits:\nCompetitive compensation and meaningful equity\n20 days paid time off every year\n15 days of remote work flexibility per year\n100% coverage for health, dental, vision\nWellness stipend to spend on gym, spa, or whatever keeps you at your best\nFree lunch\nTeam offsites\n30 minute introductory call\nTechnical interview(s)\n2 day on-site at our New York office","description_format":"text","description_chars":2480,"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":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Artificial Intelligence","Cybersecurity","AI Agents"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-17T19:28:12Z"}],"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":30,"reasons":["conf:0","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-18T09:20:32Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":250000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/tracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/tracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-18T09:20:32Z","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":13940,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-19T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"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":2361781},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2361781"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Ftracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"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%2Ftracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"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%2Ftracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack"},{"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/tracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Ftracecat-founding-engineer-full-stack"}]}