Founding Software Engineer, Full-Stack
Founding Software Engineer, Full-Stack at Credal.ai — NY, US
- Company: Credal.ai
- Location: NY, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 190000–250000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this role
We’re looking for a founding full-stack engineer to help us transition from our MVP, with proven market demand from global enterprises, to a scalable, performant architecture while maintaining our industry leading security posture.
What you’ll do:
Take end-to-end ownership of our core products, built on…
Frontend: React, Typescript, NextJS, Tailwind
Backend: Typescript, NextJS, Gel/PostgreSQL
AI/ML: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Gemini, Milvus/QDrant/MongoDB
Cloud: AWS, Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes
Ensure we can successfully sync billions of records into our data platform from our customers’ SaaS tools reliably
Engage directly with customers and our GTM team to discover and solve our customers’ most complex and bleeding edge problems
Mentor junior engineers and continue raising our bar for engineering excellence
You’ll join a team of Thoughtful Doers™ from places like Palantir, Cruise, Meta, Uber, and Google.
About you
You might be a great fit if you’re a strong developer in all things frontend and backend, with a deep interest in Agentic AI / LLM applications. Who you are:
Eager to join our mission of bringing Frontier Intelligence to the industries and institutions that matter the most to human welfare - e.g., healthcare, government, financial infrastructure
Coding comes naturally to you, you do it for fun, and excel at it for work
Spent 5+ years building software, ideally in excellent engineering cultures
You set a high bar for craft and execution, and you’re known as a creative, trusted, resourceful teammate who elevates those around you.
High-ownership - owning things (projects, outcomes, customer unlocks) from ambiguous start to clean finish
Thrives in fast-paced environments - biasing towards action, not waiting for other people to tell you what to do or how to solve a problem
Customer-focused - you care about customers’ challenges and dreams, and are energized by empowering people
Doer of things (technical or otherwise) people told you were impossible or foolish before
Enjoys mentoring and accelerating people around you that are hungry to learn but may have less experience
We encourage you to apply even if you don’t perfectly match this description but believe you would be a good fit with our values and culture. We embrace driven people who may not fit the mold or check every box.
Benefits and work environment
Free team lunch & dinner
Housing subsidy for employees who live near the office.
High quality health coverage including HSA options
Vision, dental, life, disability coverage
Regular team activities & offsite events
Unlimited PTO
In-person at our big office in Dumbo with stocked kitchen and views of the bridge 🙂
Interview process
Intro conversation with CTO or COS
Virtual tech screen
Onsite to meet our engineering team and CEO
References
More about us
We accelerate the most complex, sophisticated operations of the most impactful institutions, while weaving security and governance into every part of our product. Our customers include the HHS, MongoDB, Comcast, Lattice, Wise, Checkr, and incident.io among others. Some highlights:
Cultural principles
Team of 12 with 8 engineers
7-figure ARR
No enterprise customer has ever churned, >100% NRR
Raised just over $10m to date
Product docs, case studies, blog, podcast